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0.6% of 737 MAX aircraft delivered have been lost in unsurvivable accidents... similar numbers to orbital rockets. yikes.
by mach5 8y ago
0.6% of 737 MAX aircraft delivered have been lost in unsurvivable accidents... similar numbers to orbital rockets. yikes.
- hn_throwaway_99 8y agoThat analogy is bad statistics, and I think we should call out those bad statistics, especially on HN.
- aphextron 8y ago>0.6% of 737 MAX aircraft delivered have been lost in unsurvivable accidents... similar numbers to orbital rockets. yikes. This is what immediately struck me as well. Boeing has delivered 354 aircraft, 2 of which have gone down with all on board in the last 12 months. It's looking like they have a Comet on their hands.
- extropy 8y agoApples to oranges. Assuming they where 1 year in service and doing 1 flight per day, it's more like 0.002% accidents to flights.
- gus_massa 8y agoIt's an unfair calculation. Most orbital rocket are used only once. Another unfair calculation: 40% of the Space Shuttle have been lost in unsurvivable accidents. It's better to compare the number of accident divided by the number of flight. For the Space Shuttle, it's 2/135 = 1.4% of the flights. For the manned Soyuz, it's 2/165 = 1.2% of the flight (but both are in very old models).