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Giving the infrequency of airplane crashes, it probably isn't coincidence. Very unlikely for a brand new plane to suffer issues with altitude shortly after tak
by huffmsa 8y ago
Giving the infrequency of airplane crashes, it probably isn't coincidence.
Very unlikely for a brand new plane to suffer issues with altitude shortly after take off.
Even less likely for it to happen twice in a span of a few months.
However, aviation history has more than a handful of samples where a new design suffered multiple crashes shortly after introduction and the cause was ultimately a design flaw.
- huffmsa 8y agoSomeone is probably pulling all of the flight logs for the 737 MAX right now and is going to see how many other non-fatal cases of altitude issues after take have been reported.
- em3rgent0rdr 8y ago> "Giving the infrequency of airplane crashes, it probably isn't coincidence." I don't think that's how statistics work. You need larger sample sizes in order to make such a statement with high confidence.
- cjbprime 8y agoThat depends on the size of the effect. The total loss of a modern airliner due to a control issue is so rare that we might indeed be there now, statistically.
- peteradio 8y ago1 event can be significant.
- remote_phone 8y agoNo. If you take a small sample size and you find the problem twice then it warrants a great deal of investigating. This is common in auditing for example.
- em3rgent0rdr 8y agoYes it warrants investigating. But it still more probably is a coincidence.