Today, all passenger windows on aircraft are round or a form of rounded rectangle. No windows have sharper edges. It wasn't always this way with the first jet-powered airliners featuring square windows with sharp edges. Unfortunately, this was an engineering nightmare that should have had already been learned from centuries of shipbuilding. Airplane makers always want to make their aircraft more attractive to passengers, but safe engineering must come first.
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