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Old 7th Mar 2021, 19:05
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May be some selection bias there - if the flaws we don't find are the ones on the inside which then lead to big news failures it doesn't follow that they always (or even mostly) fail that way, it may be that the other failure modes are more common but tend to get found on inspection so don't result in in-flight failure. We'd need to know the rate of prevented-failures (blade replacements) being caught by inspection.
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