The world’s safest aircraft have been named in Boeing’s Statistical Summary of Commercial Jet Airplane Accidents 1959 – 2021.
Boeing has been issuing the annual report for decades and it tracks all commercial airline flight incidents and accidents.
The accident rates in the graphic below are per one million departures. It should be noted that some aircraft have not achieved one million departures and they are noted with **.
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The Safest Aircraft with no fatalities or hull losses are;
Boeing 717
Boeing 777-300ER/200LR
Airbus A380**
Boeing 787
Airbus A350**
Boeing 747-8**
Airbus A320/321neo
Airbus A220**
CRJ 700/900/1000**
Airbus A340
Boeing 777-200/200ER/300
Boeing 737NG
Airbus A318/A319/A320/A321
Airbus A330
ERJ 170/175/190
Boeing 737-500/600/700
Boeing 767
Boeing 757
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