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Old 19th May 2009, 21:17
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barit1
 
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"FAA approved is not a guarantee of safety."

Is this intended to be opinion or fact?
In that airplanes and the atmosphere will always collaborate against fallible humans in new and surprising ways, there can never be a "guarantee of safety". In fact, as I've oft stated, safety is not a binary "safe/unsafe" condition, but a finite continuum (measured of events per million hours etc.)
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