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Originally Posted by SebC
Sounded incredible, so I checked, and those numbers are for Southwest, not Boeing.
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My fault...it sounded low to me as well but the report I saw did not detail it was for one airline. Though I imagine if you run the real numbers it’s also not going to be a nice number when it come s to airline travel. And yes my brain automatically went to hours (mph) rather than saying flights.
It’s still a design that has the steepest fatality rate in the last 53 years. I’d say that is a pretty strong basis for grounding.
At the time of this latest crash it was flying 8600 flights a day. So even if I took that number and multiplied by the 95 weeks or so they have been in commercial,service (which is a massive over estimate) you are going to see some pretty large numbers for the airline industry. Again it could all be coincidence but given what the FAA said yesterday it’s looking less and less likely that it is.