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LDRA
Disturbing statement, shows lack of safety culture and lack of understanding of how safety works.
If the safety system will never be used, why develop and install in production aircraft in first place?
It's two subtly but significantly different statements.
that attributed to Boeing - "pilots weren’t ever likely to encounter" sounds like the kind of wording used in failures assessment guidance. (I suspect if I dug deep enough i could find it verbatim in guidance somewhere) On the other hand, "it'll never happen" is not the kind of statement any certification engineer would ever be capable of or comfortable making, and I'm guessing it's a paraphrasing (with a dollop of simplification) of the former statement.