On Friday, August 31, 2018 at 8:42:13 AM UTC-4, Emir Sherbi wrote:
Even the electric motor, that is almost fail proof, will in in time burn
a phase or blow a bearing.
Or have electronics failures due to less-than-adequate design and testing, grrr...
You have to check the statistics, not the accidents in absolute numbers.
Turbines are very "simple" and robust systems.
See if you find ratios like:
Accident/Hours; Start attempts/Starts made, Land outs/hours.
It is quite hard to get real statistics.
I certainly know of plenty of jet problems from many owners.
Most recent serious stats I know of he
http://www.nadler.com/public/DeRese_...ilplanes.p df
Hope that helps,
Best Regards, Dave