Originally Posted by USA_flyer
Computer modelling techniques are much more advanced than 10 years ago and infinitely more advanced than 50 years ago. This is an instance where the computers can do as good a job as the real thing, especially as we're talking about 3%.
Tell that to the passengers on the American airbus plane that lost the veritical stabilizer and crashed into New York.
There are test requirements for a reason. The time to change the testing requirements is before you do the tests, not as a way to cover up the shortcomings of a new airplane design.
