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Old 17th Nov 2001, 01:16
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Covenant
 
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A number of people appear to be beginning to question the design choices of the Airbus engineers, apparently on the basis of looking at a few small pictures on the internet.

For the same reason that we would hesitate to start shouting "pilot error" so soon after an accident, let's not start a witch hunt for the engineers until we know a lot more of the facts.

It may turn out that it is down to a design flaw, or something to do with the little known effects of temperature/pressure cycles on composite materials over long periods. One thing is fairly certain: I doubt they would have made such an obvious error as to have made the attachment lugs too small or weak. In the meantime, a little bit less of the hyperbole please - you don't like it when people do it to you!
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