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Public opinion is not a rigorous method of risk analysis. The alcohol being served on the flight should scare you more than the MCAS.

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> The alcohol being served on the flight should scare you more than the MCAS.

The coffee/water/ice scare me more than either of those. A former FA family member told me longer term employees wouldn’t dare touch the stuff.

Why?

Potable water tanks are built into the plane, and they're filled from a truck at the gate. Those tanks are cleaned... occasionally. Oh, and the water is usually pumped out via the same bleed air this article is about.

Although this article says that "most airlines" serve bottled water for this reason:

https://insights.globalspec.com/article/16509/airplane-water...

Although I have seen it claimed elsewhere that often the coffee and tea are made with water from the tap and not bottled. I suspect it may vary by airline.

If the coffee pots, water tanks, etc. are cleaned as rigorously as the same at restaurants and so on, then yeah I could see the desire to only want stuff that came in sealed bottles and touched no ice.

I’m quite certain the redundancies in your average kube system are more robust than those on the MCAS. single sensor for starters

Not anymore. All MAX8s have two AoA sensors and MCAS software no longer activates in a disagree scenario.

If a hundred people died every time a kubernetes cluster served a 503, the human race would be extinct.

Are 346 deaths “public opinion” to you?

That is a more objective measure than a "tarnished brand name".

However, if we're comparing, issues with air quality within planes has contributed to accidents as well.

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