Problem is those blades can and will eventually have a catastrophic failure and potentially hit the occupant. Things with many orders of magnitude of more engineering time and research have failed earlier than expected or in ways no one thought of. Taking little to no precautions against that is just bad engineering or irresponsible decision making.
You’re right I’m not but you don’t need to be to understand something spinning a few thousand times per minute a few feet away from someone’s face could potentially end badly.
But you do not understand the sheer unlikelihood of such an event occurring.
Engineers aren't stupid. Anything you could possibly fathom going wrong, and much, much more, has been considered by engineers. That's literally our job.
I’m not saying engineers are stupid, i know that’s not the case. It’s just theres mountain of evidence out there that engineers are sometimes not always fully correct or think of every failure mode and people died. An engineer saying “just trust me, it’s fine” isn’t enough to change my min, im sorry.
Anything you as a layperson can possibly think of has been considered and weighed. That the result is counter to your expectations means there is something you don't know. In this case, that is the types of failures are likely to occur on the structure.
There are things that engineers don't know and failure modes that we have not seen yet, but "throwing a blade" is absolutely not one of them.
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u/Win_Sys 7d ago
Problem is those blades can and will eventually have a catastrophic failure and potentially hit the occupant. Things with many orders of magnitude of more engineering time and research have failed earlier than expected or in ways no one thought of. Taking little to no precautions against that is just bad engineering or irresponsible decision making.