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> Sure issues can recur but this specific problem is highly unlikely to because These days the automated system to maintain fuel to the engines would fail when
by worik 4y ago
> Sure issues can recur but this specific problem is highly unlikely to because
These days the automated system to maintain fuel to the engines would fail when the sensor in the fuel tanks malfunctions. It would pump fuel overboard trying to pump fuel from an empty tank into a full one.
Obviously I made that up. The 737-max debacle shows us that we are past peak safety of aeroplanes. We rely too much, now, on automated computer systems which we (computer programmers) know are very expensive to get right. It is much cheaper to have them "almost perfect".
- jefftk 4y ago> we are past peak safety of aeroplanes I'd bet against that. Deaths per passenger mile have been decreasing continually for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fatalities_per_revenue_passenger_kilometre_in_air_transport_since_1970.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fatalities_per_revenue_pa...
- worik 4y ago> Deaths per passenger mile I prefer deaths per journey. Aeroplanes fly huge distances, journeys that would not be made otherwise. Makes " Deaths per passenger mile" daft IMO
- jefftk 4y agoI suspect that looks pretty similar? Might actually be getting better, since takeoff and landing are the most risky and with ETOPS we're doing a lot more point to point and a lot less hub and spoke.