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> My instinct is that you're probably correct, and most planes are probably riddled with similar problems and would look bad if they came under the same scrutiny as the 737 Max is currently under.

0.5% of all 737 MAXes which exist have killed everyone on board. No other mass market production airliner in recent history has that sort of record, AFAIK.

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The rate of fatal crashes is more than an order of magnitude higher than anything introduced in the past 30 years.

The Concorde is the only thing that's worse. The A310 is closer than anything else at 1.35 fatal crashes per million miles vs the 737 MAX's 3.08- and that one was also designed to share a common type rating with an existing design.

http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm

Wikipedia says 393 have been produced, so more like 0.25%.

2 out of 393 is roughly 0.5%

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