Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737 passenger plane feared to have crashed in Indonesia

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[Regulator]

Give me a break. It’s a 737-500, those are twenty+ years old on average. First flew in ‘89. One of the most popular and successful aircraft in aviation history.

You need to notice that most of these accidents happen to third world airlines who have wildly different levels of maintenance, pilot capability and capitalization. ALL of those can combine to result in a crash having nothing to do with the design or build of the aircraft, especially in this case, where the airframe probably has tens of thousands of hours.

[BwanaNdege]

Fatal crash rates per million flights
Model	Rate	Flights	FLE*	Events
Airbus A300**	0.61	6.51M	3.99	7
Airbus A300-600**	0.30	6.06M	2.00	2
Airbus A300** (all models)	0.46	12.57M	5.99	10
Airbus A310**	1.35	4.74M	6.39	9
Airbus A318/A319/A320/A321	0.09	119.0	10.58	14
Airbus A330	0.19	10.26M	1.99	2
ATR 42 and ATR 72	0.44	26.8M	11.86	15
Boeing 727**	0.50	76.61M	38.6	51
Boeing 737-100/200**	0.62	58.29M	36.43	50
Boeing 737-300/400/500**	0.14	79.60M	10.99	18
Boeing 737-600/700/800/900	0.07	100.3M	7.19	12
Boeing 737 MAX 7/8/9/10	3.08	0.65M	2.00	2
Boeing 737 (all models)	0.24	238.84M	57.4	82
Boeing 747-100/200/300/SP**	1.02	12.98M	13.23	26
Boeing 747-400**	0.06	8.42M	0.50	2
Boeing 757**	0.22	25.0M	5.41	9
Boeing 767	0.28	20.0M	5.50	6
Boeing 777	0.18	11.11M	2.01	3
Boeing DC9**	0.58	62.59M	36.40	45
Boeing DC10/MD10**	0.64	9.30M	5.91	15
Boeing MD11**	0.37	2.79M	1.02	3
Boeing MD80/MD90**	0.26	46.38M	11.94	18
Bombardier Dash 8	UNK	UNK	3.38	5
Canadair CRJ series	UNK	UNK	3.10	4
BAe146/RJ100**	0.39	11.56M	4.49	6
Concorde***	11.36	0.09M	1.00	1
Embraer E170/E190	0.03	16.67M	0.44	1
Fokker F28**	1.62	9.53M	15.45	21
Fokker 70/100**	0.18	11.11M	2.01	6
Lockheed L1011**	0.47	5.40M	2.54	5
Saab 340**	0.19	11.2M	2.10	3
** No longer in production
*** No longer in commercial service
**** One aircraft missing for over 30 days

A 25 September 2009 entry on the AirSafe.com News described the contents of the following video, which lists popular airliner models with the five lowest fatal plane crash rates. As of 31 December 2017, the order of the airline models with the five lowest non-zero crash rates were:

0.03 - Embraer 170/190

0.06 - Boeing 747-400

0.07 - Boeing 737-600/700/800/900 (737NG)

0.08 - Airbus A320 (includes A318, A319, A321)

0.14 - Boeing 737-300/400/500**

[PGR88]

Give me a break. It’s a 737-500, those are twenty+ years old on average.

Yeah, you’re right. Boeing won’t face any serious scrutiny after this. LOL

[Amberdawn]

Some on pprune are talking about the lax training and protocols at Indonesian airlines.

[mewzilla]

Update...

https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/indonesia-aereo-sparisce-radar-testimoni-e-caduto-mare-ADUZKZCB

They’ve recovered the black boxes, some remains, and debris.

[Left2Right]

Clearly you know nothing...thanks for sharing...