Boeing 737 Max: Automated Crashes [video]

Re:Boeing 737 Max: Automated Crashes [video] by swfsql on Monday December 30, 2019 @04:20PM (#21916813)

If someone has crash statistics for planes/cars by time spent in a plane/car, please ping me to it! I'm super curious

edit: nvm I found it on wikipedia, for United Kingdom 1990–2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#Transport_comp...

air/car deaths/h = 4.2x so... on this metric, not like "1000x safer"

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Re:Boeing 737 Max: Automated Crashes [video] by acqq on Monday December 30, 2019 @05:21PM (#21917190)

> air/car deaths/h = 4.2x

That number confused me (I expected to be zero point something).

For the reference, the actual numbers in Wikipedia are: deaths per billion hours traveled: air = 30.8 ; car = 130

30.8 / 130 ~ 0.24

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Re:Boeing 737 Max: Automated Crashes [video] by swfsql on Monday December 30, 2019 @07:02PM (#21917830)

You're right, I got it the other way around; car/air deaths/h = 4.2x

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Re:Boeing 737 Max: Automated Crashes [video] by Gibbon1 on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @03:57AM (#21919799)

I saw a statitic that the 737 Max is around 4 deaths per million miles. Vs 0.2 for the 737 NG. So 20 times more.

Take that 4.2/20 and you have 0.21. Or flip it around the 737 Max is 5 times more dangerous than a passenger car. That's drunk driver territory.

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Re:Boeing 737 Max: Automated Crashes [video] by ulfw on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @05:10AM (#21920035)

Yep. And the sad thing is:

it’s rarely the CAR that kills you. It’s other drivers or your own negligence.

In the 737max case it’s Boeing that killed you.

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