1y ago

Are there really more things going wrong on airplanes?

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tl;dr, no:
Are more planes having incidents than ever before? Or are we just hearing about more incidents? It’s mostly the latter.
It's the hot news thing, so any minor incident gets published to capitalize on those sweet, sweet ad impressions.
- Or it's the effort of a PR firm trying to redirect attention away from Boeing's abysmal quality control and management blundering.
I don't know that I agree with the thrust of this writer's argument, because I don't think that whether or not it's a more dangerous year on average is the issue. The fact that Boeing's planes are so shoddily built that it has the potential for things to get much worse is much higher than it used to be. The implication seems to be that we shouldn't be concerned about the issues with the 737 MAX because this is an average year for accidents.
- aside from recently, when was the last time an airplane's door plug was ripped from the fuselage?
  Like the premise is that on average things aren't any worse. But there's mechanical issues... and then there's "Supposedly-permanently-installed-panels" getting ripped off the side of the plane. or like the MCAS system and the headaches that caused.
  This is definitely a case of selective statistics.
  
  Not panels, panel. One. One panel ripped off.
  You're demonstrating exactly here the point that the author was making. You seem to think bad things are happening more than they really are.

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