[ernie]

I’m not really sure Boeing should be talking about the fleet flying 88,000 miles over 41,000 hours. I mean the numbers sound big but it’s also 250 flight miles per death at this point. And it could all be coincidence because while you heard looking for a crash every 300 years (previous calc by a poster above) you could have back to back ones and then nothing for 500 years. Unlikely but possible.

But damn 250 miles per death (125 hours) is a shocking number at this point. Multiple deaths of course make that number smaller but that’s the risk and why the standard needs to be exceptionally high.

If it is the same reason Boeing is potentially in big trouble. They will be thoroughly investigated and if there is any whiff of a cover up during design look out (some seem to feel the entire system was a cover up in and of itself from what I remenber reading about the Lion Air crash). This isn’t faking emissions testing.

Sad all around and IF there is a funadamental problem I’ll just count my lucky stars as I’ve flown on a Max 8 about a half dozen times.