Plane Crashes in Guyana

I shall try but the priority is to get myself a real full time accounts related job

Hi Lance
I shall try but the priority is to get myself a real full time accounts related job before the next milk round. Now that I have graduated with a BA (Hons) Accounting and begin my professional accounting exams. That is of course like looking for a needle in a haystack with the economy as it presently is.

I enjoy doing these aircraft related stats as I know they are quantifiable:) unlike the rubbish stats. used by politicians and the likes of the NHS on non quantifiable topics such as human illness, etc

It will be a nice background task though.;)

The stats I would like but never likely to get them are Serial Numbers, Date of original ownership, Date/s of change of ownership…..

It wouldn’t be too difficult to gather that information together from readily available sources on the Internet, Jay.

It would take ages, mind you. 🙂

For Boeing 737 Phase of Flight/Type of Incident – No. of occurrences

For Boeing 737 Phase of Flight/Type of Incident – No. of occurrence

Source http://www.b737.org.uk/accident_reports.htm

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Hi Sandy please see these stats (my charts from Chris Brady’s data)

Hi Sandy please see these stats (my charts from Chris Brady’s data)
It appears Boeing 737 NG (600, 700 and 800) are doing nicely thank you so you and I can breathe again.:D
(It’s the ‘greedy/cheapo – no quality maintenance ‘plonkers’ operating some of the older 737s way past their cycles, that are ‘dipping’ the stats):mad:
The stats I would like but never likely to get them are Serial Numbers, Date of original ownership, Date/s of change of ownership, and then to compare under whose ownership event/incident/tragedy occurs.

Anyway here goes –

Source http://www.b737.org.uk/accident_reports.htm

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I said it just seems so. I was thinking out loud.

There were, AFAIK, no 737NG write offs until the GOL 738 got it’s wing clipped over the rain forest and came apart. Since then, there have been several.

I know it is a matter of statistics, the more that are flying the more chances there is of one being involved in some mishap.

Sandy your source please – see stats below

Sandy your source please for 737NG disasters?

On http://www.airdisaster.com/cgi-bin/view_manu_details.cgi?aircraft=737
lists by Boeing type 737 from 08-12-1972 to 16-08-2010

Here are some stats. I gleaned from http://planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm
but the most recent decade has as yet no info.

I see no major changes in the stats comparing decades apart from an increase in mechanical failure in 2000-09. Reasons for mechanical failure I have as yet not an opportunity to get to more granular stats on Boeing 737NG specifically.

Is it simply that there are many more Boeing 737 in operation now ?

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Someones gonna be out of a job.

The world is strange. The 737NG went almost 10 years without a single write off. Now it seems like every incident is involving one.

Definitely a write off, lucky people!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/30/guyana-plane-crash-airliner-broke-in-two_n_913932.html?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-n%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk2%7C220562

I heard on Al Jazera that the captain apologised the the pax saying he didn’t know quite what had happened to cause the accident.

The report makes one heck of interesting reading …

The report makes one heck of interesting reading .e.g the taxi driver who charged a crash evacuee $20 for a ride to the terminal, the supposed passengers jumping on top of others, 60 metres more and down the ravine and we may not have heard of many survivors.
Lucky escape for all and thank goodness there are no fatalities.