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Except for the 346 people who died in two MAX-8 crashes: Lion Air Flight 610 on October 29, 2018, and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019.

FWIW, Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was a MAX-9.

Statistically, we agree. :)

No, you don’t.

Statistically, this airplane is drastically more likely to kill you than the average plane.

You can both be correct that almost nobody gets killed by these airplanes, but still a lot more people than the average plane.

The logic used by people who don't wear seatbelts to justify adding micromorts by habit.

Hysteresis is a bitch.

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