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1. Air planes are full of pressurized air, hydraulic and fuel systems already, and they fail very rarely indeed. 2. Aircraft control surfaces are quite a bit m

by WJW 3y ago

1. Air planes are full of pressurized air, hydraulic and fuel systems already, and they fail very rarely indeed. 2. Aircraft control surfaces are quite a bit more involved than being "a simple mechanical flap".

Hobadee 3y ago
Boeing 737 Max's aren't full of pressurized air anymore.
- WJW 3y ago
  Yes fun joke, but it's literally one plane out of thousands produced and everyone survived. FWIW, the bleed air systems kept working perfectly so they had plenty of pressurized air inside.