Absolutely. There have been several airline explosive decompressions in the past 50 years. The fatal ones have each had one fatality, even with crazy damage to the plane (look up Aloha 243) If you figure this incident "should" have had one fatality, if you figure 100 passengers per flight, that's a 1/150,000,000 chance of dying. Your odds of death are way worse on the drive to the airport than from this.
Re:Is my plane a 737 MAX?
by justinclift on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @04:46PM
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k, now calculate the odds for "737 Max series planes" vs the rest, then make your choice. ;)
Re:Is my plane a 737 MAX?
by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @04:50PM
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> calculate the odds for "737 Max series planes"
Those planes have also flown millions of miles without incident. This is a low-frequency statistics game; the signal is presently constrained to the type 9.
> There have been several airline explosive decompressions in the past 50 years. The fatal ones have each had one fatality, even with crazy damage to the plane (look up Aloha 243)
Uhhm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_611
> Fatalities: 225
They keep having new critical safety issues. :(
That latest one only didn't end up with fatalities due to luck, it could just as easily have gone the other way.