Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
—Albert Einstein
It was the wonderful American blues singer Albert King who first recorded the classic, “Born Under a Bad Sign” in 1967. The best line of the song is, “If it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have no luck at all.” Starting in 2018, Boeing, the great aerospace company, had a string of what might be called “no luck at all.” The Boeing 737 MAX entered service in 2017, and in October 2018, a 737 MAX carrying 189 passengers crashed after take-off. Five months later, another 737 MAX crashed after taking off with 157 passengers.
It wasn’t luck at all, bad or otherwise, however. With two plane crashes in five months ...
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