Majors v. Regionals accident ratio comparison

[BigPappa]

Who has had more accidents in the last 20 yrs? Was it the Majors or the Regionals?
Anyone?

 

[whymeworry?]

Typically speaking, Regionals are exposed to critical phases of flight more often than majors so that needs to be taken into account when commenting. Most accidents happen in the t/o or ldg phase of the flight.

 

[BigPappa]

I know that there are some smart people on here who can give some good insight. I say just compare 1 to 1 as in for one flight at the regionals to one flight at the majors.

 

[Bill Nelson]

what is the point of the question? SWA has more t/o and landings than any other. Do you want to look at that as well? Dumb thread.

 

[BigPappa]

Bill if you don't have an answer then please don't respond, thank you!
Bye bye

 

[foreverfo]

Typically speaking, Regionals are exposed to critical phases of flight more often than majors so that needs to be taken into account when commenting. Most accidents happen in the t/o or ldg phase of the flight.

But if you look over a time span of 20 years, regionals just started getting big in the late 90's early 2000's...it seems that USAir was making a bad habit of crashing in the 90's.

 

[Jetpipeovht]

Who gives a sh*t? dumb thread.

 

[crashpad]

For the record:
Accident rates are roughly double at the feeders compared to the majors.

 

[DrunkIrishman]

For the record:
Accident rates are roughly double at the feeders compared to the majors.

That's because we say the word "dude" on the CVR at a significantly higher rate at the regionals than do the majors.

 

[mamba20]

For the record:
Accident rates are roughly double at the feeders compared to the majors.

And the reason for it was stated above. Regionals do a lot more flying during a critical stage of flight then the majors do.

I'm sure the fact that there are some regional FO's that carry backpacks (although I am starting to see some seriously old US Air guys using them) and have spiky hair. I bet that really contributes to the accident rate. I bet if we all dressed and looked like poindexters there wouldn't be a single accident ever.

 

[TWA Dude]

For the record:
Accident rates are roughly double at the feeders compared to the majors.

And who's killed more people?

It's more intelligent to discuss how to improve safety rather than denigrate segements of aviation that have a higher accident rate.

 

[Contract]

Thats what there doing.....Regionals seem to be having more incidents and accidents then the majors...Could this be do to experience?????HMMM....what should we do about putting wonder boys in expensive jets with all those people counting on them?.......Look at it this way,,,,You have a health problem that needs immeadiate life saving surgery. There are two hospitals in town that both provide this surgery. One hospitals staff is mostly young doctors and residents. The other hospital's staff is composed of mostly doctors in there 40's and 50's who have many successful surgeries under their belt.

Which one do you want holding the knife when they cut you open?

Perhaps the more seasoned pilots should be flying the Jets and leave the planes with less capacity to the junior pilots.

 

[DrunkIrishman]

Perhaps the senior pilots should be evenly split and paired with those wonder boys so that they can eventually become senior pilots themselves regardless of the aircraft size flown.

 

[BigPappa]

You people who claim that majors have less accidents should back your statements up and not just pull stuff from your rear.

According to the NTSB website it seems that the accident rate is 2 major airline accidents for 1 regional airline accident.

 

[BoilerUP]

*sigh* more 'class warfare' between industry segments.

How many domestic regional jets have had fatal accidents?

Pinnacle (flight crew only due to pilot foolishness), and CMR in LEX. Interestingly enough, both pilots in the Comair accident had thousands of hours in type.

How many domestic 737s have had fatal accidents?

How many "big jet" pilots have run their plane out of fuel?

How many "big jet" pilots have flown a perfectly good airplane into the ground?

How many "big jet" pilots have continued a bad approach to a loss of airframe, if not deadly, outcome?

Safety has improved industry-wide in the last 10-15 years from 19 seat turboprops on up...and it is OUR responsibility to be professionals and keep it that way while we make it even safer.

What a stupid thread...

 

[Nindiri]

Even if you took all the hundreds of variables into account, an impossible task, it would still be a meaningless statistic because the sample size of accidents is too small. It would be like saying that airline A is twice as dangerous as airline B because A had two accidents in a thirty year period compared to one accident for B.

 

[pipe]

Thats what there doing.....Regionals seem to be having more incidents and accidents then the majors...Could this be do to experience?????HMMM....what should we do about putting wonder boys in expensive jets with all those people counting on them?.......Look at it this way,,,,You have a health problem that needs immeadiate life saving surgery. There are two hospitals in town that both provide this surgery. One hospitals staff is mostly young doctors and residents. The other hospital's staff is composed of mostly doctors in there 40's and 50's who have many successful surgeries under their belt.

Which one do you want holding the knife when they cut you open?

Perhaps the more seasoned pilots should be flying the Jets and leave the planes with less capacity to the junior pilots.

I would prefer a 64 year-old surgeon. Despite the palsy in his hands, his inability to stay awake, his need to urinate every 20 minutes, his declining vision, and his refusal to embrace new technologies and techniques, his experience is a must.

PIPE

 

[svcta]

Thats what there doing.....Regionals seem to be having more incidents and accidents then the majors...Could this be do to experience?????HMMM....what should we do about putting wonder boys in expensive jets with all those people counting on them?.......Look at it this way,,,,You have a health problem that needs immeadiate life saving surgery. There are two hospitals in town that both provide this surgery. One hospitals staff is mostly young doctors and residents. The other hospital's staff is composed of mostly doctors in there 40's and 50's who have many successful surgeries under their belt.

Which one do you want holding the knife when they cut you open?

Perhaps the more seasoned pilots should be flying the Jets and leave the planes with less capacity to the junior pilots.

I hate to do it, but gee whiz. Maybe we should keep the senior guys away from keyboards without an auto-spellcheck function.

 

[groggy]

im lost

You people who claim that majors have less accidents should back your statements up and not just pull stuff from your rear.

According to the NTSB website it seems that the accident rate is 2 major airline accidents for 1 regional airline accident.

Wait, BigP, I thought you were the one that asked the question to begin with. What is your point, to ask a question (dumb to begin with) and then give an answer later in the thread. Can't figure it out.

 

[groggy]

Who gives a sh*t? dumb thread.

well versed.

 

[Contract]

Yea, and the Dr. will have to work on his handwriting....

 

[BigPappa]

Well since nobody had an answer I figure I'd just go myself to the NTSB website and look it up!

 

[Fox-Tree]

And who's killed more people?

The one's with the big jets!!!
You just can't get the numbers up when you're trying to do it 50 at a time.

 

[BigPappa]

No, you just take two 74s and make it around lets say 700. Wait wasn't that an old experienced Captain. Right, you want the old experienced guy. Hmmmmmmmmm

 

[finnjl]

I have flown with major airline pilots, regional pilots, cargo pilots, military pilots, in my current job and no one particular group is any better than the other. It seems to be on an individual basis not background.

Example.
There are some regional pilots much better than military pilots just as there are some military pilots that are much better than some regional pilots.

I guess the thread starter was trying to base accident rate on experience and type of experience.