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Please try to avoid presenting your hypothesis as fact. If your third sentence was phrased as a question it'd be fine. Currently it's misinformation.
Of course it can be tested without destroying it. The actual air bag component could be disconnected from the rest of the device and the connection point monitored for the appropriate voltage/current required for activation.
And then you can never be sure you connected it back properly or if there was some anti tamper mechanism it tripped. Probably not, but wouldn't risk my life with it.