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Here's an interesting tidbit from the Avweb.com:

Rick Durden writes:

...The Cessna Skymaster and Engineering Research Ercoupe were designed to be 
very safe airplanes. One has incredibly docile single-engine handling; the 
other cannot be stalled if rigged correctly. Yet each has a lousy accident 
record. There is good reason to believe they tended to attract pilots who knew their 
skills and judgment were suspect and purposely selected a "safe" airplane. 
The poor judgment and skill of those pilots overcame the inherent safe design of 
the airplanes. One cannot help but wonder whether Cirrus Design may be 
discovering that a manufacturer can't make airplanes foolproof because fools are so 
inventive -- they'll find a way to do something way more bizarre than the 
engineers could anticipate. The problem is that engineers suffer from being 
rational; fools don't. ...

-Grease

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