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Airplane does have redundant parts, you know?

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.

It appears no less than 43 screws went missing in your link.

Yes, but there's not a lot of structural redundency, nor can there be.

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