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Originally Posted by borked
Also, that propeller thingy you mentioned that is used to power the instruments... isn't that what the crash investigators reckon failed in the recent Air France crash that was never found? |
not all planes are perfect, the Concorde certainly had some bad constructive failures. in this case the tanks in the wings.
also the 747 had a bad potential failure in the beginning: wiring for the air condition inside the tanks. a shortcut brought one machine down.
the good thing is that most accidents happen just once because of the enormous efforts they put into investigations. and in 90% of the cases probably worse could have been prevented if the pilots reacted correctly - humans are still the biggest source for errors.
i have a friend who works for Lufthansa Technik where they service all kinds of planes and i tend to believe him when he says that nothing is more tested, double checked and failure safe than a plane
but nothing is perfect of course