Re:Ethiopian Airlines plane crash: No survivors among 157 on...
by huffmsa on Sunday March 10, 2019 @10:03AM
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Someone is probably pulling all of the flight logs for the 737 MAX right now and is going to see how many other non-fatal cases of altitude issues after take have been reported.
Re:Ethiopian Airlines plane crash: No survivors among 157 on...
by em3rgent0rdr on Sunday March 10, 2019 @12:22PM
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> "Giving the infrequency of airplane crashes, it probably isn't coincidence."
I don't think that's how statistics work. You need larger sample sizes in order to make such a statement with high confidence.
Re:Ethiopian Airlines plane crash: No survivors among 157 on...
by cjbprime on Sunday March 10, 2019 @12:40PM
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That depends on the size of the effect. The total loss of a modern airliner due to a control issue is so rare that we might indeed be there now, statistically.
Re:Ethiopian Airlines plane crash: No survivors among 157 on...
by remote_phone on Sunday March 10, 2019 @01:33PM
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No. If you take a small sample size and you find the problem twice then it warrants a great deal of investigating. This is common in auditing for example.
Re:Ethiopian Airlines plane crash: No survivors among 157 on...
by em3rgent0rdr on Sunday March 10, 2019 @09:12PM
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Yes it warrants investigating. But it still more probably is a coincidence.
Very unlikely for a brand new plane to suffer issues with altitude shortly after take off.
Even less likely for it to happen twice in a span of a few months.
However, aviation history has more than a handful of samples where a new design suffered multiple crashes shortly after introduction and the cause was ultimately a design flaw.