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.
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.
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...)