Originally Posted by
bernardd
Even to lay people like me, anyone can have an accident or be caught out by the unexpected - BA were fortunate the 777 landed relatively softly inside the LHR fence. Hopefully it remains an isolated incident.
When you have a cluster of incidents someone needs to start asking questions which, as Jumbodriver points out, is happening with AF - it's not yet a disaster, but none of use want them to continue at the present rate.
When you lose on average an aircraft every two years for 30 years as Korean did, passengers should simply run away. Thankfully that mess seems to be finally under control, though I refused to use them in the 90's.
Air China (from Taiwan) also went through a bad patch in the 80s and 90s: An A300 crashed on approach to TPE; a jumbo lost its tail section and disintegrated mid-air; a total hull loss of a brand new 744 coz it slid into the harbour - those are the immediate ones that come to mind.