Originally Posted by
tdracer
Aircraft structures are also designed with large safety margins. The validation testing requirements for aircraft structure date back to when aircraft structure was designed with pencils and sliderules. Do you honestly believe there isn't justification for a re-think of those requirements based on current design practices? What other major industry does structural design validation the same way they did it 60 years ago?
The worst aircraft crash in history killed 583 people (Tenerife). The catastrophic collapse of a single large building could kill tens of thousands.
Currently it is only 2,977 deaths - just the modelling is not consistent with that, under most modelling outcomes - they still stand.