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.
0.09
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