aircraft safety

Aircraft safety records, plane by plane

Fifteen airliner families carry almost everyone who flies. Pick yours for its accident record in plain, sourced numbers — what happened, what changed after — and how it rides bumpy air.

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Drawn to the same scale, biggest to smallest. Tap one for its safety record.

Airbus A380 79.8 m · 3-4-3 · 2-4-2 Boeing 747 68.4 m · 3-4-3 Boeing 777 64.8 m · 3-4-3 Airbus A350 64.8 m · 3-3-3 Airbus A330 60.3 m · 2-4-2 Boeing 787 Dreamliner 60.1 m · 3-3-3 Boeing 767 47.6 m · 2-3-2 Boeing 757 38.1 m · 3-3 Boeing 737 MAX 35.9 m · 3-3 Airbus A320 family 35.8 m · 3-3 Boeing 737 NG 35.8 m · 3-3 Airbus A220 35.1 m · 2-3 Embraer E-Jets 28.7 m · 2-2 De Havilland Dash 8-400 28.4 m · 2-2 ATR 42/72 27.1 m · 2-2
why size matters

A bigger plane rides bumpy air differently

The same patch of bumpy air feels different on different aircraft. A large airliner carries a lot of weight on every square metre of wing and is long enough that small, sharp gusts partly even out along it, so the same gust moves it less; a small turboprop at lower altitude flies through more of the weather and responds to more of it. Neither is less safe — every airliner is built to take far more than the worst turbulence it will meet — but it helps to know what to expect.

The other thing that changes from type to type is your seat. Cabin widths vary by more than a metre between the aircraft on this page, and that width is shared out between seats and aisles. Each page draws the economy cabin from its real width so you can see where the centimetres went.

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