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1 Qantas Airways (Australia)
2 Finnair (Finland)
3 Air New Zealand (New Zealand)
4 TAP Portugal (Portugal)
5 Cathay Pacific (Hongkong)
6 All Nippon Airways (Japan)
7 Air Berlin (Germany)
8 Virgin Atlantic (UK)
9 Emirates (United Arab Emirates)
10 Transaero Airlines (Russia)
Qantas recently had many technical problems with their planes and technology. I would not consider it as the safest airline.
The original article is in Dutch, and for some reason my translator will not work on it. However, I presumed that this based on a period of years.
Quantas recent problems have been a double embarrassment because they have had such a great reputation for safety prior to this.
I am curious about a couple on the worst list, they surprised me, but not being able to translate the article puts a halt to finding out why they placed badly.
I am familiar with the original source of the Dutch article. It is a website from Germany.
This is not a good ranking from a scientific, statistical point of view. Some airlines who had accidents in the past, but are now very safe are reflected as unsafe while others who are fairly young and small and haven't had an accident yet are called safe.
They primarily look at airplanes and lives lost. So an airline could have many close calls but considered safe by them, while another airline that may be very safe in general is unlucky and loses a 747 with 400 pax onboard and is now considered unsafe.
What I am tryig to say is that airline safety is such a complex field that trying to dumb it down does not work well.
How did a Russian Airline make the safest list? (Transaero Airlines)
Seems like one crashes every week in Russia.
I'm guessing because it is privately owned and "new" compared to other Russian airlines. Aeroflot and others that pre-date the fall of communism had terrible track records.
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