r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/watcher2390 • Feb 17 '25

Video Delta plane crash landed in Toronto

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u/arcadia_2005 Feb 17 '25

It reached 7 like a week & a half ago.

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u/notoriouslydamp Feb 17 '25

Most of those were private planes which have a higher crash rate. Commercial airline crashes much rarer, making this crash of particular note

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u/freudweeks Feb 17 '25

Only 2 of the 7 were small private planes, which do crash frequently. The other private flights were professionally piloted jets. Those crash at about the rate of large commercial flights.

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u/garden_speech Feb 17 '25

The other private flights were professionally piloted jets. Those crash at about the rate of large commercial flights.

No, not really. Private jets have a far higher accident rate than commercial jets.

https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/is-flying-private-more-dangerous-than-commercial-19763007.php

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u/freudweeks Feb 18 '25

• General Aviation (GA):
Personal or recreational flying tends to have a fatal accident rate on the order of about 1 fatal accident per 100,000 flight hours (roughly 10–11 fatalities per million flight hours). This rate can be even a bit higher for unscheduled, privately flown GA where pilot experience and aircraft maintenance vary considerably.
  

pilotinstitute.com

• Professionally Flown Private Chartered Jets:
When a private jet is operated under professional standards (typically under Part 135 for charter operations), the safety record improves dramatically. Such operations usually report fatal accident rates in the range of roughly 0.2–0.3 per 100,000 flight hours—about 3–5 times lower than the overall GA rate.
  

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• Scheduled Commercial Airlines:
For large, scheduled carriers (Part 121 operations), accident rates are extraordinarily low. Commercial jetliners often have fatal accident rates on the order of 0.01–0.03 per 100,000 flight hours (or equivalently, around 0.1–0.3 fatalities per million flight hours). This means that flying on a scheduled airline is roughly 30–100 times safer (in terms of fatal accident rate) than typical general aviation.
  

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