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Re:Is my plane a 737 MAX? by teeray on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @01:02PM (#38929498)
Fallacy of Relative Privation in this case. The correct question is: “Are you less safe on a 737 MAX than any other commercial aircraft?” The answer to this question for a properly functioning airline industry should always be “no.” Given the recent incidents, the answer to this question is, unfortunately, “yes.”
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Re:Is my plane a 737 MAX? by parkererway on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @01:21PM (#38929790)
Doesn’t the answer to that question have to be less for all but one airframe?

Genuinely - trying to understand the point here.

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Re:Is my plane a 737 MAX? by teeray on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @01:29PM (#38929895)
Depends what you measure. To keep things grounded in reality we can use measures involving “things about planes that airline customers universally consider bad”: the number of people killed by a model or the number of passenger items ejected from the plane during the flight.
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Re:Is my plane a 737 MAX? by StreetChief on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @06:16PM (#38933725)
It's really that simple.
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