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Originally Posted by McRat

Dirty little secret.

There is no such animal as perfection. The current goal it to exceed 6 sigma.

Nearly every part on an aircraft or car has a failure history. The MRB paperwork on a single 747 weighs more than the aircraft.

At this point, do you throw the airplane away? No, you do an assessment of failure probability and do cost analysis. This is what is taught in college.

Cars are no different and every brand of car now has govtlawyermedia at their throats for not being perfect. The automobile industry is required not only to sell you a cheap car, but to pile hundreds of GovLaw parts on to it that really aren't logical.

In this case, GM saw that if somebody hung a bunch of weight off the ignition, the lock could break. Which is true for all cars made that use key ignitions. And has always been true. But up until today, it was never considered to be a lethal flaw except a very, very small statistical element.

Today, it's the automotive industry. Other industries are already gone.

Here's the risk. If a govlaw can make a trillion dollars by proving the aircraft mfrs sell a dangerous product, and know about it, and sell it regardless...

Would govlaw do what is right for humanity, or would they destroy air travel?

We all know the answer to that.

Poor little General Motors, the government is always against them. . .