Originally Posted by
JerseyCityS
I realize that. A plane 2 weeks old could be destroyed by a hard landing. But a plane from 1991 with the incredible stress on it's frame for that amount of time is far more frail. It's just common sense to me.
Well, airlines don't just fly them until they fail. Rigorous inspections are required for older aircraft. Just seems to a stretch to avoid aircraft older aircraft (the sky is full of them) based on a fear that they're gonna fail. How many older planes have failed like this in the past 20 years? And how many times have they taken off? Multiply that incident rate times your flying and the number is going to be almost microscopic for something bad happening. Avoiding older aircraft vs the statistical odds of failure makes me not even worry about it. The odds of Harrison Ford on the wrong taxiway almost running into your plane is (or was) higher
