"Since the Pegasus, a wide bodied commercial jetliner has been shown to have serious design flaws, it is reasonable to assume that other wide bodied commercial jetliners, such as the Valkyrie, have serious design flaws." What fallacy of reasoning does this argument commit?
A)Composition.
B)Division.
C)Refutation.
D)None, the argument is not fallacious.

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This argument commits the fallacy of composition by assuming that because one particular type of aircraft (Pegasus) has design flaws, all other wide bodied commercial jetliners (such as Valkyrie) must have similar design flaws. This is a faulty assumption because the design flaws of one specific aircraft model may not be present in other models.

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