Aircraft/Boeing
Is the Boeing 777-200 / 200ER safe?
The honest safety record for the Boeing 777-200 / 200ER, 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.
0.15
modelled fatal rate / million flights
6.0M
flights flown since 1995
1 / 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
The original 777, in service since 1995. Three events on this type have killed people. Asiana 214 in 2013 landed short of the runway at San Francisco and three passengers died. Malaysia Airlines 370 in 2014 disappeared with 239 people aboard; the main wreckage has never been found and the official investigation, published in 2018, could not determine the cause. Malaysia Airlines 17 in 2014 was shot down over eastern Ukraine and all 298 aboard were killed. The shoot-down is a deliberate act and is excluded from this airframe rate by policy. This site records MH370 on Malaysia Airlines' operator record, since no airframe cause was ever established. Two further aircraft were written off with nobody killed: British Airways 38 in 2008, which lost thrust on final approach to Heathrow when ice in the fuel restricted the flow to both engines, and an EgyptAir aircraft destroyed by a cockpit fire while parked at the gate in Cairo in 2011.
Engine programme: Mature engines (GE90 / PW4000 / Trent 800); no active fleet-wide AD program.
Who flies the Boeing 777-200 / 200ER, 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 777-200 / 200ER aircraft; otherwise we say so rather than estimate.
| Airline | In our registry | Average age |
|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 74 | 27.2 yrs |
| American Airlines | 46 | 25.7 yrs |
| British Airways | 44 | 26.7 yrs |
| All Nippon Airways | 17 | 20.7 yrs |
| Korean Air | 13 | 23.1 yrs |
| Japan Airlines | 10 | 23.1 yrs |
| Asiana Airlines | 9 | 18.7 yrs |
| El Al Israel Airlines | 6 | 23 yrs |
| Air France | 4 | 26 yrs |
| Jin Air | 4 | 20.5 yrs |
| KLM | 1 | not enough dated |
| Delta Air Lines | 1 | not enough dated |