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Might also be worth considering P(2 Crashes | N Miles across 350 planes where at least one operator has incompetent maintenance), because that might not be all that different from P(1 crash | N Miles across 350 planes where all operators properly maintain their planes)

Look at things like Alaska Airlines Flight 261 [0] - safe airframe, deficient maintenance, plane loses all pitch control and impacts ocean. Yes, this still means that Boeing needs to improve things - single points of failures are never OK on a plane - but it also doesn't (IMO) mean the plane is fundamentally unsafe without those fixes.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_261




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