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Originally Posted by nfotiu
There are significant differences. You make the informed choice on whether or not to pay for those extra safety features. 200 people get on board these planes with the (apparently false) expectation that the airplane manufacturer has done everything within their capabilities to make the plane not crash.
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The false assumption is that an airplane manufacturer does everything in their capability to make planes not crash.
A plane is designed to have catostophic failures at a rate less than 10^-9.
If the plane does not require these features to meet that standard than it is not required.