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The BBC article actaully said
The aircraft, which were suspended in the US following an incident on an Alaska Airlines flight "need to be 100% safe", said Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
Which, to an engineer, means "never".
Approx 99.9999999% safe is the regulatory standard for a single catastrophic failure (10e-9) and there may be quite a lot of those.