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Re:Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a ... by piadodjanho on Saturday June 01, 2019 @07:35PM (#20072474)
The article says it had 122 failure due bird strikes plus 85 unnamed problems in about 30 years of data.

Considering the number of flights, that does sounds reliable to me.

I still think two failures in the same sensor, in the same airplane, under the same condition, in less than one year did not happen by chance.

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Re:Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a ... by chimpburger on Saturday June 01, 2019 @08:38PM (#20072715)
You have a very poor understanding of probability. At a mean failure rate of 0.66 per year, it is quite probable for 2 failures to be spaced 4.5 months apart.
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