Originally Posted by
phylosocopter
but i understood that the whole point is that the 737 family is under one certification, does this not mean that the accident stats should be considered for the whole family not for each variant?
It depends on what you wish to measure. Each generation of the 737 family had some significant differences. The discussions here initially focused on the MAX and not the other 737's because of one of those important differences. To the degree that people want to imply that the entire line of 737 aircraft are now suspect must reconcile that position with the historical evidence that the 737NG variant has turned out to be an incredibly safe aircraft. To take this argument a bit further, if one Boeing employee at the right place and time had identified and fixed the key weakness in MCAS before launch, then instead of spotlighting all the weakness of the model, we might just be extolling the continued robustness of the design.