Believe it or not, commercial planes aren’t designed to collide with anything except adorably aloof birds at both 575 miles per hour while soaring through the sky (or 20 mph taxiing around an airport.) A panini of fiberglass cabin interior wall, assembly plant air and thin sheet aluminum is the only thing shielding passengers from the elements when they buckle into a seat. I promise you, it couldn’t be safer.
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