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[–] 12 points 4 months ago (1 child)

I have the perfect story for this.

About a decade ago I attended a week-long reliability training held by ASQ (the American Society for Quality). One day heading back to my hotel room I shared an elevator with the then-president-chairman of ASQ.

He was chatting about airliner safety, and how the engineers would do things like test/measure/calculate to find the necessary thickness of a part, and then just triple it for safety because they could. He said he'd never hesitate to ride a commercial airliner.

He then said he would never ride in a helicopter as long as he lived, lol.

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