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by TheCoelacanth 3710 days ago
But compared to the other failures modes, still extremely unlikely. It's not really worth trying to prevent an error that happens to the whole fleet once every 400 years when you could work on fixing other problems that cause plane crashes much more frequently.
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Agreed but I never said anything about engineering priorities, my observation was that unlikely events happen at scale.