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..."The test is meant to push the plane beyond its limits. Engineers had the plane pressurized and on the ground. They loaded it up well beyond capacity and bent its wings in an extreme manner, in a way almost certain to never happen in the real world."

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I almost didn't shit my pants when the door blew off.

I almost didn't didn't make it out of the burning building.

'Almost Certain' to never happen in the real world. Not very scientific to me. Sounds like PR talk.

Per the FAA (https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/advisory_circulars/...), the actual number for "Almost Certain to never happen" is no more than 1 loss of life per 10^9 flight hours. There's a real number behind that term, but not necessarily a stat that's accessible to the average news reader.

The goal is roughly that if you manage to hit some of these numbers, it's because things have already gone catastrophically wrong.

It's not feasible to ask for certain safety in all possible conditions. The only thing that can manage that is a bomb shelter with 50 parachutes.

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