Seven Sunrise (Airline Safety)

[damien b]

Originally Posted by Andrew

Then doubly irresponsible? Why was Tim McCormack only charged and jailed if there were two? No media reports indicate there were two, just him?

The other case is i believe still before the courts and was reported in the media - it was the first case revealed.

[D Chan]

there are a number of ways to work out how 'safe' an airline is - but you will have to be a fly in the wall in all of them to really know. It is possible to compare a number of different measures but no airlines would be willing to let these info out. And at the end of the day it will be comparing apples with oranges anyway.

The results he provided may have come from fatality rates (over number of flights), number of deaths, number of accidents, accident rates, number of incidents, number of inflight shut downs, number of tech-related diversions, safety culture and so forth. Adding to this the result also depends on the period / years sampled, e.g. Delta L1011 crash, Lufthansa 747-100 crash, Mt Erebus for Air New Zealand etc.

If he doesn't show how he came about this conclusion he shouldn't be taken seriously, even though gut instinct tells you the list is probably not too far off.

[Brenden S]

There was 2 guys. It was in the media.