World jet airline safety trend

[3WE]

A KLM pilot with similar esteem decided to take a gamble and caused the worst aviation disaster in history.

He decided to take a gamble?

And Van Zanten is similar to Boeing Bobby?

Ok, he decided to go to get out of bed that day and go to work.

Just like you decided not to ride a bicycle.

Indeed, there are usually safer choices that can be made.

[Evan]

47 years, 27000 hours accident and incident free. And yes, those were the good old days!

Mostly, if not entirely, these statistics are merely incidental. When you look into the things that cause most plane crashes, they could have happened yesterday or forty years ago. Pilot error. Lack of discipline. Flawed situational awareness. Does EICAS/ECAM make a plane safer than having a flight engineer? What good is CRM when the crew ignores it? Pilot quality? We also saw pilots ignoring instruments and flying into terrain in the 70’s. A lot of risk has been removed by technology and improved procedure but still most crashes occur for reasons where the technology has not changed so much: failures between the ears.

You had many hours and solid pilot discipline I assume. A KLM pilot with similar esteem decided to take a gamble and caused the worst aviation disaster in history. In the good old days. But he could have done the same thing this morning. He might have gotten away with it and retired with a stellar record.

I don’t place much meaning in these statistics.

[BoeingBobby]

Don't tell the retired pilots. Thems were the good old days, you have to understand.

47 years, 27000 hours accident and incident free. And yes, those were the good old days!

[Evan]

So was riding my bicycle.

Yeah, try doing it for a living.

[orangehuggy]

Shortest gap was 7 days between MH17 and AH5017, longest was 633 between MS804 and 6W703.

[3WE]

Don't tell the retired pilots. Thems were the good old days, you have to understand.

So was riding my bicycle.

[Evan]

Don't tell the retired pilots. Thems were the good old days, you have to understand.

[orangehuggy]

Did some math and came up with there being a major incident approximately once every 30 days at the beginning of the last decade to once every 236 days today. Huge improvement!