Thomas Borchert writes:

And your worries show in the accident statistics of the Boeing 777 and
the Airbus 32x and up exactly where, after over 20 years of service?

With the exception of the 747, all of the non-fly-by-wire Boeing
aircraft have had fewer accidents than any of the FBW Airbus aircraft,
on a per-flight basis.

From the most to least safe, we have:

1 Saab 340
2 (Boeing) MD-80
3 Boeing 767
4 Boeing 757
5 Boeing 737
6 Boeing 727
7 Airbus A319/A320/A321
8 Embraer 120 Brasilia
9 (Boeing) DC-9
10 BAe 146
11 L-1011 Tristar
12 Airbus A300
13 Airbus A310
14 Boeing 747 (!)

There's a ton of single points of failure in any aircraft ever designed.

But very few catastrophic failure modes outside the world of
fly-by-wire.

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