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Re:Boeing delays 737 MAX software fix delivery by alkonaut on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @12:47PM (#19556130)
If you can choose the airline you know what fleet the plane comes from. If you search on the flight number on e.g Flightradar24 you can see what model they used on the flight for several recent flights.

But in the end I suppose the reality is that even an un-fixed MAX-8 is orders of magnitude safer than your car ride to the airport. So before picking aircraft models, ensure you ride the train to the airport and not a taxi...

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Re:Boeing delays 737 MAX software fix delivery by josefresco on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @01:28PM (#19556552)
Also check out https://flightaware.com
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Re:Boeing delays 737 MAX software fix delivery by leowoo91 on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @01:36PM (#19556627)
Looks like we can at least have a guess, makes sense.
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Re:Boeing delays 737 MAX software fix delivery by stronglikedan on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @01:16PM (#19556430)
> an un-fixed MAX-8 is orders of magnitude safer than your car ride to the airport.

Of the 346 people that died in the last two plane crashes, not a single one of them died in a car on the way to the airport.

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Re:Boeing delays 737 MAX software fix delivery by NeonVice on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @02:35PM (#19557208)
"The odds of winning the lottery is 1 in 292 million." "But for that one person it is 100%!" sigh
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Re:Boeing delays 737 MAX software fix delivery by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @03:04PM (#19557505)
Of all the people who died of the Spanish Flu, not a one died in World War One before that.
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Re:Boeing delays 737 MAX software fix delivery by emiliobumachar on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @02:32PM (#19557181)
The reverse can be said about the hundreds of thousands of car crash casualties last year.
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Re:Boeing delays 737 MAX software fix delivery by empath75 on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @01:22PM (#19556483)
Impeccable logic
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Re:Boeing delays 737 MAX software fix delivery by stronglikedan on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @01:28PM (#19556547)
Just as logical as the statement I was poking fun at.
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Re:Boeing delays 737 MAX software fix delivery by alkonaut on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @01:51PM (#19556773)
I was assuming the person was trying to avoid dying, not trying to avoid plane crashes in particular. Someone who wants to avoid a plane crash but would ride a motorcycle without a helmet to the airport obviously needs to use a different strategy.
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