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by fastball 2480 days ago
Doesn't sound like it.

"Engineers had the plane pressurized and on the ground. They loaded it up well beyond capacity and bent its wings in an extreme manner..."

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I was responding to a question about the difference between being on the ground and in the air, not one about the many other differences between this test and real-world operation.