What hull-loss rate does each generation of the Boeing 737 have?

The hull-loss rate of the Boeing 737's original series, the -100 and -200 models, is 1.8 per million flights. The second generation, the Classics, shows a rate of 0.76 hull losses per million flights. The Next Generation models have drastically cut that figure to 0.18 per million flights. The family's black mark is the MAX, with a loss rate of 7.21 per million flights.

Just over a hundred of the family's losses corresponded to original 737-100 or 737-200 variants. Only 1,144 examples of those early models were ever built, in the 1960s. The later variants, known as the 737-300, 737-400 and 737-500, logged 49 losses. The production run of those aircraft was 1,990 units. The most recent new-generation 737s, classified as 737-6/7/8/900, have suffered only 12 total losses. Over 5,600 aircraft of that generation have been built.