AviationGeeks.com - Engineers: Passengers´ survival was miracle by design

When an airliner slammed onto a rainy Caribbean runway early Monday and split into three shredded pieces, passengers called it a miracle that no one died in the impact.

To the engineers and accident investigators who pushed for decades to improve airliner safety, the outcome was by design.

"I cringe when I see these headlines that this was a miracle," said John Hickey, the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) deputy safety chief. "We as engineers and scientists don't believe that this is a miracle. We are totally convinced that the work that we did in the 1980s has proven its value."

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