Yeah. Stuff is designed to break. They can’t make anything invincible. I want to puke when i hear dopey people say “Why don’t they just make planes out of the same stuff as th black boxes?”
I’m no engineer, but aren’t there always additional safety factors built into any large design?
sor of like “It can withstand a 6.0 quake, maybe even a 8.0 quake, but we cannot guarantee the 8.0 number”
Of course the guys with the pocket protectors cannot come out and say that, if the plant did fail in 8.0, then they would get sued.