[o11c]

The point in the outer comment was that the 737NG has both many flight hours and ... if I skimmed Wikipedia correctly, only 1 mechanically-attributed fatality.

For reference, the most-produced passenger/cargo aircraft:

  16K Douglas DC-3 (1935)
  11K Boeing 737 family:
    1K Original (1967)
    2K Classic (1984)
    7K NG (1998)
    1K MAX (2016)
  11K Airbus A320 family (1988)

Different sources give oddly different numbers (more than I would expect for ordered vs built vs delivered; I didn't investigate deeply), but nothing else is above 2K. Note that plenty of small or military planes beat these numbers.

[kazen44]

its actually kind of crazy how much military planes where produces during world war 2.

Look at this list[0]: the soviet IL-2 plane has produced more planes the the entire list of planes mentioned above over a period of 4 years!

That is just one type of plane, for one country during a very short period..

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-produced_aircraft