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The most dangerous parts of flight are during takeoff and landing, something Boeing didn’t seem to accurately account for in the design of the 737 Max’s safety systems.

If you’re over 10K feet in the air there is some room for recovery procedures, but if you haven’t reached cruising altitude you have much less time before a plane finds itself impacting the ground.

Per-mile travelled isn’t an adequate standard to compare aircraft with other modes of transit when talking about safety.




I think per hour of use would be a better metric.




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