>It's hard to make a claim on whether it was safe enough without explicitly defining the safety goal.
I don't think it's that hard. "We're not sure exactly how safe it is, and do not have any actual requirement that it meet any specific level of safety" is clearly not safe enough for manned flight. (At least not outside of war-time or other such times we're willing to take on extra risks)
Would you get on an elevator that has a weight limit listed as "hasn't fallen yet", "has only fallen that one time", or "did fall that one time, but not since the redesign". Would you trust millions of dollars of human training and several lives to such an elevator?
I don't think it's that hard. "We're not sure exactly how safe it is, and do not have any actual requirement that it meet any specific level of safety" is clearly not safe enough for manned flight. (At least not outside of war-time or other such times we're willing to take on extra risks)
Would you get on an elevator that has a weight limit listed as "hasn't fallen yet", "has only fallen that one time", or "did fall that one time, but not since the redesign". Would you trust millions of dollars of human training and several lives to such an elevator?