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Old 8th Jun 2010, 03:58
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bearfoil
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My point is this: The failure cross section appears identical in each component, or there is a mirror behind one of them. The failure appears to have crossed the relieved area, indicating too much attention to weight relief, and the machined relic at the shoulder of the failure appears to be sharp, even uneased, concentrating a weak point at an already marginal support. Virtual testing should have identified this area, and even in a thirteen year old commercial a/c, this is a critical assembly to fail so unremarkably, even predictably.

Or this is an elaborate put up.

bear