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Old 11th Jun 2011, 21:34
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You takes your chances.
Aircraft are designed by humans and humans dont always grasp the implications of their design choices (and the tradeoffs inherrent in these choices). All new aircraft designs have flaws and the only way to discover some of these flaws is by accumulating operating experience. As pilots and passengers, we knowingly (or not) accept the risk that this entails. We hope that these flaws are discovered and corrected before they cause serious accidents, but history is replete with examples where this was not the case. To name a few: Comet, B737, DC-10, ATR 72, Airbus A330. These all resulted in significantly greater losses of life. Avoidable? Maybe, maybe not.

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