Re:US refuses to ground Boeing 737 Max
by buboard on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @01:03PM
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the question is if this difference is statistically significant
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Re:US refuses to ground Boeing 737 Max
by kickopotomus on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @05:56PM
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You are taking a commercial flight. You have the choice between 2 different aircraft which are essentially identical but you are more than 50 times more likely to crash in one of them. Which do you take?
EDIT: I have learned that I was far too generous with the flight numbers. The MAX series has only logged ~150K flights. Therefore it's hull loss rate is roughly 13.33 per million making it almost 50 times more dangerous than the NG line.
Yes, the difference is statistically significant.