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You don't really have to have faith here. There are 176000 commercial flights per day, and Boeing planes are probably about half of those. That's about 80K pe

You don't really have to have faith here. There are 176000 commercial flights per day, and Boeing planes are probably about half of those. That's about 80K per day or 29 million per year. So crashes are provably exceedingly rare.

dheera 6y ago
For past planes that's fine, but it seems that they released the 737 Max knowing that there would be life-threatening safety issues, and has justice been served? Have the responsible parties been jailed for murder? Has the stock market been revised to prioritize safety and lives over "earnings"? What happened? Oh, they just paid a big fine? I guess they now just have less money to correct safety issues and management issues, and probably need to cut some more budget corners after the fine. Should I trust a fund-starved aircraft manufacturer with my life?
- missedthecue 6y ago
  The 737 Max flew millions of hours in North America and Europe before going down in Africa and Indonesia. I flew on it more than once. The Max is no DC-10. It's a safe aircraft, provided the crews are properly trained.
  - dheera 6y ago
    My understanding is that there was no option to disable only the MCAS system without also disabling the buttons for the stabilizer? Also, one would think that all automated controls on an aircraft should yield to manual inputs as the highest priority. It seems that was not the case with MCAS, and that alone was a grave design error.
- fallingknife 6y ago
  Don't trust motives, trust results is what I'm saying. You could be 100% right about everything, but the results say that the planes are staying in the air, and that's what matters.
  - lamontcg 6y ago
    Two crashes with everyone on board dying within 2 years of introduction of a new plane due to a fundamental design issue are not good results, and the opposite of planes staying in the air.
  - inter_netuser 6y ago
    why reward Boeing with more money? They knew about the problems and ignored them. Voting with your wallet and feet works great.

dheera 6y ago

For past planes that's fine, but it seems that they released the 737 Max knowing that there would be life-threatening safety issues, and has justice been served? Have the responsible parties been jailed for murder? Has the stock market been revised to prioritize safety and lives over "earnings"? What happened? Oh, they just paid a big fine? I guess they now just have less money to correct safety issues and management issues, and probably need to cut some more budget corners after the fine. Should I trust a fund-starved aircraft manufacturer with my life?

missedthecue 6y ago
The 737 Max flew millions of hours in North America and Europe before going down in Africa and Indonesia. I flew on it more than once. The Max is no DC-10. It's a safe aircraft, provided the crews are properly trained.
- dheera 6y ago
  My understanding is that there was no option to disable only the MCAS system without also disabling the buttons for the stabilizer? Also, one would think that all automated controls on an aircraft should yield to manual inputs as the highest priority. It seems that was not the case with MCAS, and that alone was a grave design error.
fallingknife 6y ago
Don't trust motives, trust results is what I'm saying. You could be 100% right about everything, but the results say that the planes are staying in the air, and that's what matters.
- lamontcg 6y ago
  Two crashes with everyone on board dying within 2 years of introduction of a new plane due to a fundamental design issue are not good results, and the opposite of planes staying in the air.
- inter_netuser 6y ago
  why reward Boeing with more money? They knew about the problems and ignored them. Voting with your wallet and feet works great.