I checked out Wikipedia's List of accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 737. '
'For anyone as nerdy as I am, below is what a got from the page -- and from other sources on production timelines and numbers.
Looks like there have been a total of 126 crashes of 737's (all models) since 1970. (May not be perfectly accurate -- went through pretty quick).
The bottom line is that I think I'd prefer to stick with the Next Generation models when flying (737-600/-700/-800/-900).
A couple tidbits from elsewhere:
Number of 737's (all models) delivered through Feb 2020 = 10,575
An analysis by Boeing on commercial jet airplane accidents in the period 1959–2017 showed that the Next Generation series had a hull loss rate of 0.17 per million departures compared to 0.71 for the classic series and 1.75 for the original series.[73] source. I assume hull loss includes non-fatal.
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737 Original (-100/-200) aircraft started flying in 1967
77 fatal crashes in 54 years = 1.43 per year
Produced from 1967 to 1988
30 737/100's produced
1,095 727/200 produced
Assuming the planes produced all went into service that's fatal loss of about 70 planes per 1000 over 50 years operating (Crashes per number of flights or flight hours would be much more meaningful, but don't know that)
0 - 1967
0 - 1968
0 - 1969
1 - 1970
0 - 1971
2 - 1972
2 - 1973
0 - 1974
1 - 1975
0 - 1976
2 - 1977
1 - 1978
1 - 1979
1 - 1980
2 - 1981
3 - 1982
3 - 1983
2 - 1984
3 - 1985
3 - 1986
2 - 1987
4 - 1988
2 - 1989
1 - 1990
1 - 1991
2 - 1992
9 - 1993
2 - 1994
3 - 1995
3 - 1996
1 - 1997
1 - 1998
2 - 1999
1 - 2000
0 - 2001
1 - 2002
2 - 2003
0 - 2004
3 - 2005
1 - 2006
2 - 2007
2 - 2008
0 - 2009
2 - 2010
1 - 2011
1 - 2012
0 - 2013
0 - 2014
0 - 2015
0 - 2016
0 - 2017
1 - 2018
0 - 2019 (as of 2019, only 46 still in service, generally with charter operators)
0 - 2020
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737 Classic (-300/-400/-500) aircraft (started flying in 1984)
38 years flying, 36 fatal crashes = 1.05 per year
Conflicting numbers. Produced 1984 - 2000. One source says 1,988 were produced. Assuming all produced went into service, a fatal loss of about 18 planes per 1000 planes over 38 years operating (Crashes per number of flights or flight hours would be much more meaningful, but don't know that)
0 - 1984
0 - 1985
0 - 1986
0 - 1997
1 - 1988
2 - 1989
1 - 1990
1 - 1991
1 - 1992
1 - 1993
1 - 1994
0 - 1995
0 - 1996
2 - 1997
1 - 1998
1 - 1999
1 - 2000
1 - 2001
2 - 2002
0 - 2003
1 - 2004
2 - 2005
3 - 2006
3 - 2007
2 - 2008
1 - 2009
2 - 2010
1 - 2011
0 - 2012
1 - 2013
0 - 2014
1 - 2015
1 - 2016
1 - 2017
0 - 2018
0 - 2019
0 - 2020
1 - 2021 (the Indonesia flight)
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737 Next Generation (-600/-700/-800/-900) started flying in Dec 1997
12 fatal accidents = 0.55 per year
1998 - 2020 7,067 delivered
Fatal loss of 1.6 planes per 1000 over 22 years operating
Sixteen-million hours per accident cited here (includes non-fatal events)
0 - 1998
0 - 1999
0 - 2000
0 - 2001
0 - 2002
0 - 2003
0 - 2004
0 - 2005
1 - 2006
1 - 2007
1 - 2008
0 - 2009
3 - 2010
0 - 2011
0 - 2012
0 - 2013
0 - 2014
0 - 2015
1 - 2016
2 - 2018
0 - 2019
3 - 2020
Max
1 - 2018
1 - 2019
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