Re:The McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max cr...
by cameldrv on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:41PM
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According to Wikipedia, the 737MAX flew 500,000 flights before it was grounded. According to this: https://randy.newairplane.com/2018/05/22/737-max-a-year-of-s... The average 737MAX flight was about 3 hours. Typically 3 flight hours is about 1250 miles, so the 737MAX flew about 625 million miles, for about 3 fatalities per billion passenger miles.
Here's the best data I could find from the U.S.: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229020495_Aviation_...
It looks like the U.S. in the 1970s had about 1 fatality per billion passenger miles. To get to 3 per billion, you have to go back to the early-mid 60s. I wasn't able to get worldwide data, but generally the rest of the world has lagged behind the U.S. by a factor of at least 3x.
Cars are about 7 per billion passenger miles (https://www.reddit.com/r/urbanplanning/comments/bw0msc/passe...)
And still, even if that is the case, the anger stems from the fact that corners seemed to have been cut and warnings ignored. In other words this was not some unforeseen event that was unavoidable. It was in fact avoidable