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		kiba on March 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Malaysia Airlines Says It Lost Contact With Plane ... Airplane does have redundant parts, you know?

yeukhon on March 8, 2014 | [–]

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/15/us/screws-missing-on-tail-...

Sure a missing screw on a passenger seat is unlikely to cause the airplane to crash. Any redundancy can fail at critical moment.

MaulingMonkey on March 8, 2014 | | [–]

It appears no less than 43 screws went missing in your link.

einhverfr on March 8, 2014 | [–]

Yes, but there's not a lot of structural redundency, nor can there be.

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