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by jamiek88 900 days ago
accident statistics:

Boeing 737: 149 accidents

Boeing 747: 49 accidents

Airbus A300: 33 accidents

Airbus A320: 28 accidents

Boeing 737 NG / Max: 27 accidents

Edit for context (thanks /u/janice1999) there are 11,182 Airbus A320s and ~8400 Boeing 737 NG / Max so even pro rated Boeings recent planes are worse and the A320 has been out a few years longer too.

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Is there data which shows accidents per flight?

edit:

I found some and put it into a Sheet for convenience of sort-ability.

As far as raw accident per flight data, only Concorde is worse than the Max series. Wow.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FTq3PwQMb83dnNtxwZoY...

http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm

We'd probably also want to see separate stats for issues that occur shortly before landing or after takeoff -- stuff that may be more likely to come up with every flight regardless of duration.
You are correct. Apologies, prior to seeing your response I had updated my comment stating that, and also found some data.
Punch line: the 737-MAX has an accident rate 12x higher than the 737.

Stunning.

28.

Alaska Airlines Flight 1282