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Old 23rd Sep 2016, 03:10
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Cost of loss of a hull and 250 passengers: easily 500 million
Cost of an emergency diversion: perhaps 50,000?

So in purely financial terms you should be able to justify several thousand false alarms for each true alarm.
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