Comment Comment by ceejayoz http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm indicates 79 fatal 737 incidents with about a quarter billion flights under their belt.https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/b-52-safety.htm indicates 76 B-52s destroyed in accidents across 7.5 million flight hours.They're not perfectly comparable sets of numbers, but the B-52s look substantially riskier on a per-hour basis. parent ceejayoz 7 years ago
https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/b-52-safety.htm indicates 76 B-52s destroyed in accidents across 7.5 million flight hours.
They're not perfectly comparable sets of numbers, but the B-52s look substantially riskier on a per-hour basis.