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by jkqwzsoo 899 days ago
Keep seeing this take (just an installation issue), over and over and over again.

I think it's much worse than a design flaw.

Even very carefully-engineered systems can have flaws. Engineering flaws, once identified, can be engineered around, managed, or corrected.

I'm much less comfortable with the idea that the assembly plant for these planes could be a random-critical-failure generator based on how the employees handle a torque wrench.