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by flashback2199 898 days ago
> the overreaction to this is bordering on insanity

Not an overreaction. Not bolting on a door on a brand new plane is past bordering into full-on insanity.

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Mechanics routinely forget to bolt the wheels onto cars, which has caused and continues to cause actual traffic deaths.

Nobody floods into the comment sections on HN when this happens because people dying in cars is depressingly normal but planes are so unimaginably safe that a person hypothetically getting sucked out of a plane is strange and terrifying.