Originally Posted by
SteinarN
Independent of the cause of the crash, this must be the worst start of any new aircraft or major derivative in modern times in terms of number of deadly crashes and numbers of fatalities divided by cumulative flight hours? It must be worse than the DC-10, and second to the Comet only? Truly an unbelievable bad start for the Max.
Indeed. Probably coincidence. But if I had to board a MAX tomorrow I would be slightly concerned. Purely statistically this is pretty much unparalleled in Airliners in the last 40 years...
In Chicago there will be 'panic mode'.