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Originally Posted by
WillowRun 6-3
Excuse me, but the linked article is so censored-censored-censored good!!!
Is it?
This is because when jetliners fail for mechanical reasons, those reasons tend to be much more complicated and interesting (at least from an engineering perspective). For a flight to be imperiled by a prosaic and eminently avoidable manufacturing or maintenance error is an anomaly with ominous implications.
We have had a few discussions here on PPRuNe over the years about accidents with fairly simple causes.
The example I have in mind is static ports being clogged/taped/obstructed but not noticed before takeoff, which in turn led to a pitot-static system failure that cascaded into something worse.
While I do not disagree with the general thrust of his article, taken as a whole, I found the tone and language the author used in his opening paragraphs to be a bit much.