Originally Posted by
aerobod
The products from both companies are safe, the airline industry safety record on average has never been better. There have always been problems and delays in the past, they are just more public now.
While statistically this may be true, when a couple of aircraft are forced into an irrecoverable dive and a door blows off another one in mid flight it shows an alarming deficiency in at least two of the design, manufacturing, QC and QA processes. These were preventable accidents. One wonders what else is wrong that we don’t know about yet.
But yes, statistically your chances of having an accident driving to the airport are much higher than they are when you’re flying away from it.