Originally Posted by Hand Solo
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Originally Posted by Blind Pew
The aircraft was equipped with substandard parts which were inadequately tested, when this was realised there should have been a mandatory replacement program within a definite time scale.
Down to manufacturers and the authorities.
Agreed, but all major manufacturers have been guilty of this.
To be fair there is no practical way to duplicate the conditions encountered for testing purposes other than millions of hours flying looking for those conditions and running tests in the few seconds the test plane is within those conditions. They're that exotic. There is also the problem that nobody could conceive of such conditions existing until very recent years.
Flying today is an order of magnitude or two safer than it was in the days of the "old farts" here. Dredge up statistics for yourself. You owe it to your reputation for honesty and fairness around here.
(Yes, I looked it up. B is slightly safer than A at this time for current models. All are so much better than the old C, D, B707 era, and other older planes it's silly to compare them on a linear graph.)