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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
On average is the US, there are 44,000 flights and more than 3 million airline passengers across more than 29 million square miles of airspace every day. 99.99% are no issues at all. That small percentage of a minor failure is just not real news. You local news would be nothing but car crashes or car issues in the average city if they reported evey flat, crash, and run out of gas issue, and 99.99% would not happen if the driver was paying attention to the driving and maintenance on their autos.
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We have all heard the old saw, "you are safer in the airliner than you are driving to the airport"...because it is true.
The only thing I care about is how the failure mode, and there appears to be a significant one in the OP, is that is tracked and analyzed has either a maintenance issue or a design issue leading to an Engineering Change Proposal or updates to maintenance procedures.
If you think about where you really
are at 38kt feet in a machine, and all the "stuff" that got you there and all the "stuff" that can go wrong to prevent you from
getting back, commercial flight is amazing.