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Airplane does have redundant parts, you know?

• yeukhon 13y ago
  http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/15/us/screws-missing-on-tail-wing-of-plane-in-crash-fatal-to-14.html http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/15/us/screws-missing-on-tail-... Sure a missing screw on a passenger seat is unlikely to cause the airplane to crash. Any redundancy can fail at critical moment.
  • MaulingMonkey 13y ago
    It appears no less than 43 screws went missing in your link.
• einhverfr 13y ago
  Yes, but there's not a lot of structural redundency, nor can there be.