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Re:Boeing 737 Max: Automated Crashes [video] by umvi on Monday December 30, 2019 @11:15AM (#21914315)
> My fleet sums to ~100k trips and zero (human) deaths. The 737MAX can't claim such a low number of deaths per trip.

737 Max had ~500K death-free trips before its first crash.

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Re:Boeing 737 Max: Automated Crashes [video] by cjbprime on Monday December 30, 2019 @01:13PM (#21915405)
That sounds very wrong.

According to https://randy.newairplane.com/2018/05/22/737-max-a-year-of-s... the Max had only made 41k flights total in May 2018, six months before the first crash.

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Re:Boeing 737 Max: Automated Crashes [video] by umvi on Monday December 30, 2019 @02:29PM (#21915966)
Yes, I think you are right, it is much lower than 500K, I misread the wiki page which stated it had 500K flights at the time groundings started and assumed there weren't a significant number of flights between the first crash and groundings.
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Re:Boeing 737 Max: Automated Crashes [video] by cjbprime on Monday December 30, 2019 @02:48PM (#21916080)
I'm still not sure I follow. How many flights do you think the MAX has now? I'd guess around 100k but the wiki says around 600k and the difference seems important.
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