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”Both Aircraft Were Boeing 737 MAX 8 Aircraft”

I don’t see why that warrants mentioning, in the context of the article, where both planes are 737 MAX. Given that ”More than 320 of the 350 Boeing MAX aircraft delivered through January 31, 2019, are of the MAX 8 variety”, it would be more surprising if they weren’t both a MAX 8 (probability of the latter is about 1:6, if we assume all variants are equally safe)

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Incident relationship. Two incidents for the same aircraft type in 5 months is a unicorn in the wild situation for aviation. Except like an evil unicorn. That's why it warrants mention.

But, having established that both were 737 MAX (”However, Sunday’s crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX is the second fatal incident involving the aircraft type in just five months”) the observation that both were 737 MAX 8 is not surprising at all, given that >90% of 737 MAX’s in service are of that type.

They should also not have mentioned that both planes were Boeings, since 100% of 737 MAX are Boeings.

Because if it is the plane that’s the problem it’s important to know which plane it is.

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