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Air travel has gotten much safer over the past half century and an usually high percentage of 737 Max aircraft have suffered a complete hull loss with all passe
by ashtonkem 6y ago
Air travel has gotten much safer over the past half century and an usually high percentage of 737 Max aircraft have suffered a complete hull loss with all passengers and crew dying. As has been mentioned before "past performance is not predictive of future results".
As best as Wikipedia can tell me, Boeing has delivered 130 Max's which flew ~120,000 flight hours. Even if we completely disregard all MCAS failures that the pilots were able to mitigate, two 737 Max 8's were destroyed within the first two years of operation, representing ~1.5% of the aircraft actually in operation in two years. That is a pretty alarming statistic, and points to the Max 8 genuinely being an unsafe aircraft.