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Re:Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat f... by bambax on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @08:47AM (#34324767)
0.635 mm is indeed an odd number. The thickness of a piece of 80gsm paper is 0.065 mm, so maybe what is meant is "about the thickness of ten sheets of paper"...?
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Re:Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat f... by jamincan on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @11:23AM (#34327231)
It's precisely 0.025 inches.
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Re:Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat f... by intrasight on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @01:55PM (#34329640)
Who else thinks that if a tolerance of the thickness of a sheet of paper, in a mechanic/maintenance setting, could cause the death of over 300 people, that there's a striking lack of fault-tolerance in the design.
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