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Re:Malaysia Airlines Says It Lost Contact With Plane Carryin... by kiba on Saturday March 08, 2014 @01:14AM (#7364399)
Airplane does have redundant parts, you know?
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Re:Malaysia Airlines Says It Lost Contact With Plane Carryin... by yeukhon on Saturday March 08, 2014 @01:22AM (#7364416)
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.

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Re:Malaysia Airlines Says It Lost Contact With Plane Carryin... by MaulingMonkey on Saturday March 08, 2014 @01:43AM (#7364461)
It appears no less than 43 screws went missing in your link.
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Re:Malaysia Airlines Says It Lost Contact With Plane Carryin... by einhverfr on Saturday March 08, 2014 @05:50AM (#7364855)
Yes, but there's not a lot of structural redundency, nor can there be.
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