Mythical Safety

The basic standard in the industry is that the airplane and its systems should be designed such that catastrophic failure does not occur more than once in a billion flight hours. Consider that standard for a moment: one would have to fly continuously, 24 hours a day, every day, for more than 110,000 years...

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