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 nicktelford on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @06:33AM (#19377406)

Wikipedia has a pretty handy table of metrics here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#Transport_comp...

Ignoring the silly ones (Space Shuttle, Skidiving and Paragliding), we see that Motorcycles are by far the most dangerous mode of transport, across all metrics. Buses do very well, only losing out to Aircraft on distance.

When you look at Aircraft by number of journeys, the risk is significantly higher - nearly 3 times higher than car journeys!

That said, there are othe factors to consider here: these metrics only track _deaths_. So non-fatal incidents (of which the majority involving cars are) aren't considered.

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Re:Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about... by ergocoder on Thursday March 14, 2019 @12:16AM (#19386492)

Thanks for sharing it.

It seems, if the risk is based on the distance, then air is 60x safer. But, for per journeys, air travel is worse. For per hours, the air travel is only 3x safer.

The popularized concept of air travel's risk gave me the impression that air travel was sooo much safer than car. smh. If you asked me a month ago, I would say air travel should be, at least, 1000x safer than car.

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Re:Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about... by kayfox on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:33PM (#19401265)

Read the paragraphs below the table.

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Re:Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about... by ergocoder on Sunday March 17, 2019 @03:49PM (#19416114)

I read it, but I don't know what you are trying to convey. Please elaborate. Thank you.

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