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This is a soap dispenser though. That's not a safety critical component, the soap dispenser breaking isn't going to cause a plane to fall out of the sky, or the weapons system to accidentally go off, it's just a thing for dispensing soap.


> That's not a safety critical component, the soap dispenser breaking isn't going to cause a plane to fall out of the sky

Depends on the failure mode. Assume the screws with which the soap dispenser is installed are spec'd to wrong torque and the installation causes stress fractures as a result that end up propagating through the aircraft...

Yes it sounds far-fetched, but aircrafts have crashed due to microfractures caused by improper torques on other components...




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