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Old 15th Mar 2005, 07:44
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I didn't say it did, and certainly DON'T believe it was the cause of EITHER of these accidents/incidents.

From my experience, I believe the MAIN cause is that these composite components on both Aircraft were weakened by water/ice ingress over a long period of time into these components.
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