Airbus: A year with no fatal accidents

Reminded me of the fabulous sketch of the Pool Supervisor, In 1975 No One Died, by Alan Partridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUoT5AxFpRs

“…in commercial aviation.”

Not just for Airbus

Looking at safety without also considering utility is a bad move.

If I want to be really safe, I should stay in bed all day. Merely going down my stairs is a remarkably dangerous activity, yet I consider the utility to be worth it.

Therefore the real metric to minimize is deaths per passenger mile.

Or, even better, take into account the lifetime 'used' to get that utility. So maximize miles travelled / total time spent travelling and waiting at departure gates, where a death counts as 100 years.

Airbus should not brag about that, as this is the basic expectation. That said, there is something cleary fishy happening in Boeing, something with accute dangerous follow-ups. I guess the US administration is investigating, because the warnings have been loud enough (and a lot of luck for the moment) and better "fix" that before something really nasty happens.