Approximetly how often do airplane crashes happen??

Question

What is the chance of it happening??

also if u CAN answer this please do:

When was the last time a airplane crashed?

Answer 1

Approximately 80 percent of all aviation accidents occur shortly before, after, or during takeoff or landing, and are often described as resulting from 'human error'; mid-flight disasters are rare but not entirely unheard of. Among other things, the latter have been caused by bombs, as in the 1988 Lockerbie incident, mid-air collisions such as in the 2002 Überlingen crash and structural failure, as in the 1954 Comet disasters and 1988 Aloha Airlines incident.

An accident survey [1] of 1,843 aircraft accidents from 1950 through 2006 determined the causes to be as follows:

53%: Pilot error

21%: Mechanical failure

11%: Weather

6%: Sabotage (bombs, hijackings, shoot-downs)

8%: Other human error (air traffic controller error, improper loading of aircraft, improper maintenance, fuel contamination, language miscommunication etc.)

1%: Other cause

The survey excluded military, private, and charter aircraft.

A study by Boeing [2] (page 19) determined the primary cause of Airline hull loss accidents (worldwide commercial jet fleet), from 1996 through 2005, to be:

55%: Flight crew error

17%: Airplane

13%: Weather

7%: Misc./Other

5%: Air traffic control

3%: Maintenance

That study included 183 accidents, with known causes for 134 of them. The remaining 49 were unknown, or awaiting final reports.

Previous Boeing studies showed higher rates for Flight Crew Error:

70%: 1988 - 1997

67%: 1990 - 1999

66%: 1992 - 2001

62%: 1994 - 2003

56%: 1995 - 2004

Aircraft manufacturers are often slow to accept that aspects of design might play a role in accident causation, finding it more convenient to state that human crew members were responsible. In fact, the complex interaction between the human crew and the aircraft often creates a fertile ground in which human error may flourish. This is examined by Simon Bennett in his book Human Error - by Design.[neutrality disputed]

For more information, you can go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_crash

Answer 2

It is very very unlikely you will crash in an aeroplane, and even less likely you will die in one.

Aero planes are now the saest form of transport, 10 times safer than cars.

Not many planes crash a year, a single figure, and i'd say probably less than 5.

Even less are fatal

The last time a plance crashed would've been this year.

Answer 3

like 1 crash every 6 to 8 months. maybe the last time an crash was a long time ago. like 3 out of 10.