And when you think of it that way, the fact that someone may have steered the thing into a sheer rock face instead of open sky seems academic at best. All of that had to go right before the thing even began, before this staggering technical achievement could achieve anything approximating success or failure. A crew had to go through collective thousands of hours of training, workers on the ground had to ensure that every single aspect of the machine was in working order and a national infrastructure of airports and traffic control had to exist to get the plane into the air in the first place.

Materials had to be extracted and refined to exacting specifications, plans had to be developed and then edited, remade and edited again until they were nothing short of perfect.

A million things had to go right to make it possible: the plane had to be built by hundreds of skilled workers, drawing on the technical innovations of literal centuries to produce a colossal metal marvel that astounds casual observers even today. When you think about it it's really sort of a minor error, a plane crashing into the side of the mountain.

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