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More components obviously reduce the reliability, but if the likelihood of failure of each of those redundant systems are independent (and to some degree even if they are dependent), at a high-level I believe it's just P(failure of system 1)P(2)P(3), so the likelihood of failure could pretty easily be made infinitesimal. On the other hand, there are lots of plane flights. :-)


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