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Monday, July 28, 2003

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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