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Firefighters douse the Qantas A380 after it made an emergency landing at Singapore's Changi international airport. Photograph: Wong Maye-E/AP

As an investigation begins into the cause of the engine failure of the Qantas-owned A380 the safety of airliners and air crash data worldwide comes into focus.

The crash of the Cuban airliner ATR-72 yesterday killed 86 people and came just after the Qantas flight from Singapore to Sydney was forced to turn back after one of it's engines blew up.

Airliner safety is recorded by organisations that detail the data for all airliners worldwide.

Consultancy, Ascend Worldwide, have provided a data set looking at the most popular airliners in the world. The data shows how many fatal accidents have occurred and how many passenger fatalities there have been. It does not include terror attacks.

The data shows some key results:

• The MD 80 has the highest number of passenger fatalities although the Boeing 737 (CFMI) follows closely with 1049 fatalities.

• The Boeing 777, Airbus A319 and ERJ- 145 have all recorded no fatal accidents to passengers or passenger fatalities.

• Boeing 737 (NG) currently holds the highest number of operating airliners at 3274 worldwide.

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The Most Popular Airliners Worldwide

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Aircraft Type
Total number currently operating
Fatal accidents to passengers
Total passenger fatalities
Boeing 737 (CFMI) 1636 17 1049
Boeing 737 (NG) 3274 6 497
Boeing 757 813 7 531
Boeing 767 770 6 790
Boeing 777 854 0 0
Airbus A319 1207 0 0
Airbus A320 2388 9 602
Airbus A321 617 1 146
Airbus A330 709 3 454
CRJ Regional Jet 945 3 95
ERJ-145 689 0 0
MD-80 942 15 1106

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