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There is a huge difference between a failure due to a bad design detail (can be checked for and corrected typically) and an okay design with bad manufacturing (
by atoav 3y ago
There is a huge difference between a failure due to a bad design detail (can be checked for and corrected typically) and an okay design with bad manufacturing (the problem could be literally everywhere).
In the worst case you might even have to disassemble and reassemble the whole plane to really make sure you are not sitting on a ticking timebomb. And this might not be straightforward given the amount of glue involved in modern airplanes.
- tobinfricke 3y agoOf "good design with shoddy implementation" and "bad design with good implementation" - I'm not sure which is worse
- atoav 3y agoWould you rather fly A) in the play where ten screws were misdesigned and later fixed or B) in the plane where the design was okay, but a unknown number of screws are missing, loose or wrong although there was a check?