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Fatal Plane Crash Rates for
Selected Airliner Models

The following airliner models are ranked by the rate of fatal plane crashes per million flights. Only plane crashes involving at least one passenger death are included. The number of flights are current as of 31 December 2010 for the following models: Airbus (all), Boeing (all), BAe 146/RJ100, Concorde, Fokker (all), Embraer 170/190, and Lockheed L1011.

- ATR models are current as of 31 August 2003.
- Bombardier CRJ is current as of 31 August 2004.
- All other models are estimates.

A 25 September 2009 entry on the AirSafe.com News described the contents of the following video, which lists popular airliner models with the five lowest fatal plane crash rates. After the January 2010 Ethiopian Airlines crash, the order in the video would change. The current generation of the 737 would drop from number two to number three, and the A320 series would go from number three to number two. Note: If you need to convert any file on this site from a pdf to word file to make it easy to print, please do so.

Fatal Crash Rates Per Million Flights

Model	Rate	Flights	FLE*	Events
Airbus A300**	0.50	11.88M	5.99	9
Airbus A310**	1.40	4.55M	6.38	8
Airbus A320/319/321	0.10	54.55M	5.63	9
Airbus A330	0.23	4.35M	1.00	1
Airbus A340	0	2.30M	0	0
ATR 42 and ATR 72	0.47	13.2M	6.22	8
Boeing 717**	0	UNK	0	0
Boeing 727**	0.50	76.47M	38.6	50
Boeing 737-100/200**	0.61	57.65M	35.44	49
Boeing 737-300/400/500**	0.15	67.31M	9.99	17
Boeing 737-600/700/800/900	0.12	33.33M	4.01	6
Boeing 737 (all models)	0.31	158.29M	49.44	72
Boeing 747	0.71	19.36M	13.73	28
Boeing 757**	0.26	20.83M	5.4	7
Boeing 767	0.35	15.79M	5.50	6
Boeing 777	0.00	5.56M	0.00	0
Boeing DC9**	0.57	62.33M	35.40	44
Boeing DC10**	0.65	9.03M	5.91	15
Boeing MD11**	0.47	2.17M	1.02	3
Boeing MD80/MD90**	0.26	42.11M	10.94	17
Bombardier Dash 8	UNK	UNK	2.38	4
Canadair CRJ	0.26	8.11M	2.10	3
BAe146/RJ100**	0.45	9.92M	4.49	6
BAe Jetstream**	UNK	UNK	6.07	7
Concorde***	11.36	0.09M	1.00	1
Dornier 228	UNK	UNK	9.60	11
Dornier 328**	UNK	UNK	0.11	1
Embraer Bandeirante**	3.07	7.5M	23.00	28
Embraer Brasilia	0.71	7.4M	5.27	6
Embraer 170/190	0.11	3.85M	0.44	1
Fokker F28**	1.67	9.25M	15.45	21
Fokker 70/100**	0.19	9.71M	1.89	5
Lockheed L1011**	0.48	5.33M	2.54	5
Saab 340**	0.19	11.2M	2.10	3

** No longer in production
*** No longer in commercial service

Fatal events of selected aircraft models
Fatal events and fatal event rates of selected airlines
Accidents by Model
Aircraft Production histories from Airliners.net
*Details on analysis method

Note: These listed fatal event rates are an estimate of historical risk and not an estimate or prediction of future performance. This listing of fatal event rates does not constitute either an endorsement or a lack of an endorsement of any airline or group of airlines.