Aircraft/Boeing
Is the Boeing 767-300ER safe?
The honest safety record for the Boeing 767-300ER, straight from the accident data. Context, not spin.
Informational only. Not safety, operational, or travel advice. These are estimates from public records, provided as-is; see our terms & disclaimer.
0.08
modelled fatal rate / million flights
30.0M
flights flown since 1988
2 / 4
fatal accidents / hull losses on record
The rate is the model's shrinkage-adjusted estimate, the same figure used in a flight's score, not a raw count ÷ flights ratio. See the methodology.
Specifications
What the record shows
A long-haul twin-aisle workhorse in service since the late 1980s and one of the original ETOPS aircraft. Its safety record is strong; the most airworthiness-significant accident, Lauda Air 004 (1991), led to industry-wide thrust-reverser redesigns. Deliberate acts (the EgyptAir 990 murder-suicide) are excluded from this rate, and the September 2001 hijackings involved 767-200 variants, not this -300ER.
Engine programme: CF6 / PW4000 / JT9D heritage, long-mature engine programs.
Accidents on record
1991: Broke up in flight after an uncommanded thrust-reverser deployment
Near Bangkok, Thailand · 223 fatalities
Who flies the Boeing 767-300ER, and how old theirs are
Counted from individual airframes in our registry, with build years from public registries and sourced references. An age appears only where we can date at least three of that airline's Boeing 767-300ER aircraft; otherwise we say so rather than estimate.
| Airline | In our registry | Average age |
|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 43 | 30.4 yrs |
| United Airlines | 38 | 30.6 yrs |
| All Nippon Airways | 29 | 21.9 yrs |
| Japan Airlines | 29 | 19.1 yrs |
| Asiana Airlines | 8 | 30.1 yrs |
| Ethiopian Airlines | 6 | 24.2 yrs |
| Air Canada | 6 | 32.7 yrs |
| American Airlines | 1 | not enough dated |
| LATAM Chile | 1 | not enough dated |