> Or maybe, a few millions is like only a thousand hours of flying in jet fuel costs alone, not a big deal...
Pretty much tbh. For example, the development of the Saab JAS 39 Gripen (JAS-projektet) is the most expensive industrial project in modern Swedish history at a cost of 120+ billion SEK (11+ billion USD).
It was also almost cancelled after a very public crash in central Stockholm at the 1993 Stockholm Water Festival [1]. A crash that should not have happened because the flight should not have been approved in the first place, because they weren't yet confident that they'd completely solved the Pilot-Induced Oscillation (PIO) related issues that wrecked the first prototype 4 years prior (with the same test pilot) [2].
It was basically a miracle that no one was killed or seriously hurt in the Stockholm crash, had the plane hit the nearby bridge or any of the other densely crowded areas then it would've been a very different story.
Pretty much tbh. For example, the development of the Saab JAS 39 Gripen (JAS-projektet) is the most expensive industrial project in modern Swedish history at a cost of 120+ billion SEK (11+ billion USD).
It was also almost cancelled after a very public crash in central Stockholm at the 1993 Stockholm Water Festival [1]. A crash that should not have happened because the flight should not have been approved in the first place, because they weren't yet confident that they'd completely solved the Pilot-Induced Oscillation (PIO) related issues that wrecked the first prototype 4 years prior (with the same test pilot) [2].
It was basically a miracle that no one was killed or seriously hurt in the Stockholm crash, had the plane hit the nearby bridge or any of the other densely crowded areas then it would've been a very different story.
[1] https://youtu.be/mkgShfxTzmo?t=122
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6yVU_yYtEc