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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
The problem is that the 737 Max 8 has such a small sample size relative to the previous model 737 that two crashes in ~500,000 makes it an outlier.
Still. That's 4 flights per million. Not quite lottery odds, but still nowhere near a statistical likelihood, or something that should influence an individual traveling somewhere.
Then again, this is coming from a guy who used to YouTube "World's Scariest Plane Landings" before he started flying for work, because I figured if a plane can land with its front landing gear turned sideways, then I felt a lot better about the chances of lesser anomalies being a concern. |
I understand air travel is safe and 737 max planes are probably safer than my car. But the statistic behind two similar crashes in this number of flights is abnormal. That's why the plane is being grounded. Abnormality is much more important than overall odds. The odds relative to the norm is where the problem is.