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Dang! Boeing airplanes are literally falling apart in normal operation! I'm not an aviation expert by any means, but are all these "little problems" indicative
by taylodl 2y ago
Dang! Boeing airplanes are literally falling apart in normal operation! I'm not an aviation expert by any means, but are all these "little problems" indicative of a bigger problem at Boeing? Are we just getting lucky that so far the things that have been failing haven't had disastrous consequences? Can someone who knows about these things enlighten me?
- kelseyfrog 2y ago> are all these "little problems" indicative of a bigger problem at Boeing? It depends on the exact way you phrase the question, but if it were "Is the rate of accidents per flight for Boeing aircraft significantly different between 2004-2014 and 2014-2024?" then you could run for example a one-sample poisson test against the data. The accident data is available from https://www.ntsb.gov/Pages/AviationQueryv2.aspx https://www.ntsb.gov/Pages/AviationQueryv2.aspx and I'm sure you could find a source for number of Boeing flights for each time period.
- taylodl 2y agoThank you for enlightening me instead of downvoting like some others did.
- jryle70 2y agoSo what did you learn from going through that list? do you still think "all these little problems indicative of a bigger problem at Boeing"?
- taylodl 2y agoIt's hard to say. Boeing has had 3.8x times the number of flights resulting in fatalities since 2010 than has Airbus, for example. Therefore, Airbus is safer, right? Well, hold on - we need to know the number of miles flown by each type of plane in that interval and scale these numbers appropriately. In short, this is going to take some digging and I haven't had the time to do the serious digging this requires. A cursory search reveals that nobody else has done this kind of research either. While I'm sure this statement isn't true, it's not easy to find, either.