Off of the aviation Safety Web Pages last year. # of flights are estimated, and of course "This information is neither official, nor an endorsement of any plane of manfacturer"
Fatal Event Rate Per Million Flights
Model Rate Events Flights
Fokker F28 2.63 20 7.6M
Douglas DC10/MD11 1.92 15 7.8M
747 1.77 21 11.9M
Airbus A310 1.25 3 2.4M
Lockheed L1011 0.93 5 5.4M
Airbus A300 0.87 6 6.9M
BAe 146 0.81 3 3.7M
Airbus A320 0.77 4 5.2M
Fokker F70/F100 0.75 3 4.0M
Douglas DC9 0.74 40 54.2M
737-1/200 0.72 34 47.1M
727 0.63 44 69.5M
757 0.59 4 6.8M
737-3/4/500 0.43 10 23.5M
767 0.34 2 5.9M
MD80 0.32 6 19.0M
Saab 340 0.16 1 6.3M
The 747 is probbly so high because it's a popular terrorist target.
What scares me thought, is the fact that:
a) The 727 and 737 1/200 are both old (actually acient) planes
b) The FAA won't tell you anying about airline safety besides "it's safe" After they said so about ValueJet (now AirTran BTW) and then grounded them, that line means nothing to me.
c) The average age for an airliner is pushing 30 years I beilieve.
d) A good deal of the DC-10 crashes were mechanically related I think.