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Originally Posted by Esel Mann
Wow, that Airbus that lost all hydraulics because of a wing hit is scary!!! 
I would've guessed there would be either some sort of redundancy in the hydraulics or a mechanism to prevent complete loss due to a single point failure. What's up with that?
Is the above weakness in other manufacturer's aircraft too? |
No civilian plane is designed with SAM's in mind.
Yet this one took the hit and it came down in one piece (eg it did not blow up or disintegrate in the air) with no human loss of life.
You cannot call it a single point of failure when the wing was busted up with a fragmenting warhead, causing a full tank of fuel to burn out and through the wing.
That's not even a failure mode of the plane/design, it's a multipoint impact/explosion by an external factor + major fire.
So i really do not see this example as an argument of a design weakness, the plane kept flying and with an oustanding effort by the pilots, a method of flying and landing the plane was found..
That is a jolly good show as the English would say.