Which one of the two has the highest accident rate? Boeing or Airbus?

Question

Which one of the two has the highest accident rate? Boeing or Airbus?

Answer 1

It would have to be Airbus given the tremendous number of flight hours accrued by Boeing Aircraft.  The B-52 or B29 each probably can supply more flight hours than total of Airbus Aircraft.  

If you are looking for a specific solution you may want to narrow it down to commercial jet aircraft as Airbus has only delivered jets.  You may also want to narrow it down to accident due to faulty aircraft system, accidents caused by faulty maintenance or accidents caused by human error due to faulty interaction of crew and equipment.  The latter is when human misunderstanding uncovers a system weakness, such as the Russian International Airways A310; near Novokuznetsk, Russia, 22 March 1994.  Although a child was at the controls he managed to over ride the Autopilot in a manner not thought possible.  It caused a change in all 310 autopilot systems.

Edit: When you say rate, it implies a ratio or matrix.  If you want the most number of accidents it would have to be Boeing.  

I got a thumbs down.  OK, mail me and tell me what you don't agree with. I've been in this world too long to be unreasonable.  Some of my experience was getting 141's in to and out of Tan Sanut.  Where were you?

Answer 2

The rate is affected by all sorts of stuff (age of airframe, maintenance etc.).

What you need to know is that boeings are better. airbus planes are designed by accountants. I don't know a pilot who prefers airbus.

Answer 3

Boeing.. at the moment :)

Answer 4

i would say that neither are as the airbus has a different control panel and yoke than the boeing. airbuses are for military pilots and boeing is for normal pilots that did there training at a pilot school or who got a sponsorship.

Answer 5

Well, Boeing has been around a lot longer, there's a lot more Boeing airplanes in the air, so Boeing does.

If you wanted specific models for comparison, find a few model numbers (Like the Boeing 737 versus the Airbus A320) and go from there.

Answer 6

Boeing, but only because they've been around for thrice the time Airbus has, and there are about 10,000 Boeing planes in the air, compared to about 5,000 for Airbus...

Answer 7

The rate of crashes is the ratio of planes to planes that crash. Not how many planes crash in total. I cannot belive how many people have no idea of that concept.

Airbus has a worse rate. You have to take into account the age of the aircraft. When you look at all aircraft 5 years old and newer, Boeing has no crashes, Airbus has several. Its like that until you reach aircraft of 20 years or older, and then Boeing is worse, because their are very few airbus aircraft that old that have not been retired.

If you dont believe me, when was the last time a newer 737, 747, or any 757, 767, or 777 crashed? (Those are all the being models produced since 1986) Only one 767 has crashed, and no 737s and 747s made since 1985 have crashed.

The majority of Airbuses that have crashed have been made in the 1990s or newer. You can tell because the models involved in the crashed werent even produced until then.

Answer 8

Ask when Airbus has as many aircraft produced.

Answer 9

you would actually measure it in ratio, like number of crashes to number of planes built.