Boeing to Suspend 737 Max Production in January

Re:Boeing to Suspend 737 Max Production in January by SmellyGeekBoy on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @05:24AM (#21812286)

I'm not sure the fear is illogical in a case when over 300 people have died due to a known design fault, particularly when the manufacturer in question tried to sweep it under the rug the first time it manifested itself.

I have no problem at all with flying and do it regularly (as recently as yesterday, on a 737-800 no less) but I wouldn't set foot on a MAX, even if I was assured that the fault was fixed.

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Re:Boeing to Suspend 737 Max Production in January by kawfey on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @09:13AM (#21813577)

The fear is illogical because there is a 1 in 2,925,000 odds of dying on commercial aircraft [0].

Before the MAX 8 was grounded, it had well over 2,000,000 hours of flight time on 387 aircraft performing 8,600 flights/week for 56 airlines [1]. Two out of 800,000+ flights crashed due to MCAS taking input from a broken AoA sensor, related to the poor maintenance of the airlines, and poor training by the airline and possibly pilot error.

Imagine the level of detail of scrutiny the MAX 8 is currently undergoing. I'll wager it'll have been the most scrutinized aircraft to have ever flown once it's re-certified, if not the safest. Plus, everyone knows about MCAS now so a crash due to it misbehaving in the case of a _double_ AoA vane failure is incredibly unlikely now.

So I think the fear is still illogical.

[0] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2013/02/14/danger-o...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX

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