does the fact that an aircraft engine exploded in mid-air yet landed safely and everyone appears fine give you more or less confidence in the design of the aircraft?
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Replying to @DanielleFong
Is that a good analogy here? There were large numbers of WW2 bombers available to examine.
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Replying to @stevebloom55
well, obviously the analogy falls apart because there's not shrapnel blasting through stuff in this case -- the engine exploded itself. it is only a weak analogy I am just mainly saying all things are subject to survivor bias!
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Replying to @DanielleFong
Sure, but don't we need a larger population to consider to be able to say anything at all? That is, other than that engine failure is possible, but I think we already knew that.
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Replying to @stevebloom55
my meme is trying to make the point that the engine actually took a hit, as well as evoke the concept of survivor bias, because it seems true that some events like this could have been much more damaging, perhaps leading to loss of the planes, who's story we partially recover
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Replying to @DanielleFong
Sure, although the engines weren't where the damage showed on the bomber.
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Replying to @stevebloom55
indeed, the curiosity of a large aircraft surviving an engine exploding! i don't know what you think we're... disagreeing with? i don't know.
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mentally i'm just saying this is a large aircraft like a bomber. we've got an example where the engine fails and blows off its nacelle -- it's survived. it's a new datapoint in large aircraft :) actually there are others of course e.g.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/us/southwest-airlines-explosion.html …
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