Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about suspected safety flaw

Re:Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about... by azernik on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @08:06PM (#19374372)

It's a useful metric because, when comparing auto and plane safety, consumers are usually deciding between taking a plane and a car for the same distance. We could give them risk as a function of distance by taking the increased takeoff/landing risk into account, but generally people only compare the two for fairly long trips.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about... by ergocoder on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @08:53PM (#19374681)

For the context of driving long distance, that makes sense.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about... by jrib on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @06:29AM (#19377384)

Do the car incident statistics only take into account long distance trips?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about... by azernik on Friday March 15, 2019 @07:58AM (#19398820)

For cars they count all passenger-miles equally. Car accidents are much more strongly correlated with distance than aircraft accidents, but I don't know the actual risk factors - these are all heuristics for much more detailed models that I'm sure some academic is building.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about... by ergocoder on Sunday March 17, 2019 @03:53PM (#19416136)

What is eye-opening here is that: Aviation industry insurers base their calculations on the deaths per journey statistic while the aviation industry itself generally uses the deaths per kilometre statistic in press releases

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#Transport_comp...

So, insurers don't wanna use this death per distance.

[ Parent | on HN ]