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by bparsons 722 days ago
Commercial airliners are built for extraordinary stress on the airframe. You can get a taste of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--LTYRTKV_A

Other people will correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the last time a large commercial airliner was lost to turbulence was 1966. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOAC_Flight_911

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> Film footage shows Flight 911 taxiing past the still-smoldering wreckage of Flight 402 immediately before taking off for the last time.

Wild how far we've come.