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Oh, come on, this is a terrible argument. Those A330 hull losses are over more than 25 years. The Max went into production in 2017. The correct metric to use
by cjbprime 8y ago
Oh, come on, this is a terrible argument.
Those A330 hull losses are over more than 25 years. The Max went into production in 2017. The correct metric to use here is hull losses per hour of flight. I can see some total number of flights data, but not total hours. The Max has probably made fewer than 100k flights total, the A330 has made at least 7 million flights.
Therefore, multiply the two Max hull losses by 70 to get your first ballpark guess at a comparable number. It is as if the Max was an A330 with 140 hull losses instead of 11.
- rsynnott 8y agoIt may be even worse than that, because the A330 is a long-range plane. I’ve been on an 11 hour A330 flight. Many 737 flights are only a couple of hours. Of course, given the small numbers of 737 MAXes, this may be s statistical fluke. But grounding it til the investigation is complete doesn’t seem crazy to me.
- khuey 8y agoTakeoff and landings are the most dangerous part of the flight though, so comparing based on number of flights may in fact be the salient metric.