Originally Posted by
Stuart Sutcliffe
No, that isn't necessarily the case, surely?. Tension applied for a wing loading text could just as easily distort part of any door locking mechanism (load transmitted through the airframe, of course) such that the locking mechanism gives way, rather than the airframe.
If the airframe distorts to break part of the lock mechanism, I will call it a airframe structural failure.
Beefing up the lock could work, but is a band-aid.
If that is the problem and not just a new problem now the FAA have been woken.