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Yeah but that's not how statistics work. 20 concords isn't a large enough sample size to pull statistically signifigant conclusions from. Furthermore, the cra
by iancmceachern 4y ago
Yeah but that's not how statistics work. 20 concords isn't a large enough sample size to pull statistically signifigant conclusions from.
Furthermore, the crash you reference was not a result of a design flaw or the "suoersonic-ness" of Concorde but a combination of human error (they took off too heavy for the conditions) and an accidental strike of an object on the runway left by the previous (Boeing) plane.
It's no doubt that several of the accidents you reference in your stats are design flaws, it only takes one to make it worse than the concords perfect record (excluding the one crash because it was a combination of human error and failure of another plane). So in reality, adjusting for non-design related failures, the concord has a better safety record than any other commercial airliner.
- TremendousJudge 4y agoThat's my point. Comparing the safety record to other commercial planes is kinda pointless, since so few were built and they were used so little (and even then, one managed to crash and burn). If the 737-MAX had seen the same use, I'm sure we'd never had uncovered the design issue that caused the crashes either. And "any other commercial airliner" includes planes like the 787 and the A380, which have literally never had an incident with fatalities.