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The fuel tanks on the wings are self sealing and built to take impact. it's not like the old days, lockheed constellation comes in and carrying gasoline which is very volatile, jet fuel is not as volatile as gasoline by far. the safety improvements and fuel tank and all of the design work that goes on into the product like that to get you a certification, that gets you to the kind of product that we fly in commercial aviation every day and you can have confidence when you get on those airplanes, that "a" the industry is very standardized across the board. are there exceptions? yes, but for the...

And be seen. >> think of it as driving your car, you avoid traffic by seeing it, not putting your car where there's another car. the airplane works in visual flight rules the same way. >> see and be seen is a catastrophic failure in two deadly collisions between the same two airlines, twa and united. the first crash is over the grand canyon, on june 30th, 1956. >> these two pilots were having to deviate around thunder storms, build ups that were occurring. you can't fly through them. so they were deviating around them. they actually didn't know that when they came back around the back side of ...

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