Yet Another Air Disaster This Year, Is Flying Becoming Less Safe?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3297871/Russian-passenger-plane-220-tourists-board-missing-Egypt-Fears-aircraft-crashed-Sinai-desert.html

i ask this because this year we seem to have witnessed more aircraft related accidents/incidents, than I can ever remember in recent past years

[Prudie]

Proportionally flying is safer and safer, there are just so many more flights these days. Having said that i'm not aware of there being more lately. I'm a nervous flyer so would never want to fly with a tin-pot airline mind you.

[Gromit]

No.

Flying is becomng more safe.

[anotheoldgit]

Any comments on the increasing number seen this year?

Not only the two previous airline crashes, but also the near misses, engine on fire etc, but also the light aircraft and the vintage air crash.

[mikey4444]

I think it may be a case of being reported more often perhaps and more readily, although I see that this involves an Airbus A-321, which I am sure has had quite a few accidents lately. But I may be wrong.

[DTCwordfan]

take a look at these stats/graph, rather negates AOGs feelings

[DTCwordfan]

http://www.planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm

[Gromit]

Vintage airshows are notorious for crashes because the aircraft are old, and pilots show off. There have been hundreds of crashes in th past, and thecoyple this year are not out of the ordinary. The Shoreham crash resulted in more deaths than normal because the pilot put down onto a busy main road.

The trend in civil airline crashes is down. There are less accidents and less fatalities each year, despite there being ever more aircraft flying.

http://www.planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm

[mikey4444]

DTC is right...statistically flying has become safer ( although you would still have difficulty in getting me on a Malaysian Airways flight ! )

[Canary42]

But AOG never lets facts get in the way of his posts.

[Gromit]

DT,

Great minds think alike.

[naomi24]

Canary, that was uncalled for.

[DTCwordfan]

More info....

http://www.jacdec.de/airline-safety-ranking-2015/

[Gromit]

Air crashes this year.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Aviation_accidents_and_incidents_in_2015

Of course the Germanwings one wasn't an accident. Not a hugh list.

[Gromit]

// this year we seem to have witnessed more aircraft related accidents/incidents, than I can ever remember //

There just hasn't been that many.

[Bigbad]

Although not a regular contributor, I do read all the posts and comments in the news section.
It seems to me that lots of ABers wait for AOG to post something, just so they can pounce on him, and in this particular thread, it’s Canary, even though AOG had only asked a question - not given an opinion.
And whilst I doubt that this intelligent and articulate man needs me to defend him, I just wanted to say - I like you, AOG!

[Gromit]

Bigbad,
There is an error in the question that says there are more crashes. But there aren't more crashes. From that error stems the question, Is flying becoming less safe. The answer is that it isn't becoming less safe. In order to answer the question, we need to establish what the facts are, which several of us have done with links to statistics. I was not waiting to pounce on AOG. I answer on many of his questions, and sometimes we even agree.

[bazwillrun]

"Canary, that was uncalled for"

but not unexpected from our very own little yellow streaked back keyboard warrior

[bazwillrun]

bigbad has it one re AOG and others

[237SJ]

AOG didn`t say that there are more crashes. He said we seem to have witnessed more aircraft accidents/incidents which is probably true as the ones that happen in the UK or related to UK registered airlines, or happen in the West tend to be higher profile than obscure old coal burners that go down in the middle of Siberia or darkest Africa.

[bazwillrun]

"The answer is that it isn't becoming less safe."

hey Sherlock, tell that to the families and survivors of the spate of crashes