Frank: How many fatalities at Ryanair since 1994........eeemmmmm.........zero!!!!! Am sure someone can count those at BA, American airlines etc....;)
BA have had a grand total of two flights involving loss of life. One was in 1976 when 176 passengers died after Yugoslav air traffic controllers crashed two aircraft into each other. The other was in 1990 when a 747 got caught up in the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the Iraqis shot a passenger (for being a member of the Kuwaiti royal family).
In fact, since 1994 a grand total of 14 BA passengers have required hospital treatment after accidents/incidents (there was only one, at Heathrow in Jan 2008).
This compares rather well to Ryanair. In 2002 one of their planes needed to be evacuated because the crew thought it was on fire (it wasn't) the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch found that some members of the cabin crew struggled to open the emergency doors and had to be assisted by off-duty cabin crew traveling as passengers. Some passengers attempted to evacuate onto the right wing of the aircraft, before being turned back by firefighters. In August 2008 a Ryanair flight suffered loss of cabin pressure: 16 of the 168 passengers needed to be taken to hospital and several passengers complained that their oxygen masks didn't work. In November 2008 eight passengers required hospital treatment after their plane made an emergency landing at Rome Ciampino airport.
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