Maybe this following problem is starting to come home to roost?...
Degrees at RMIT 'dumbed down' for foreign students | News.com.au
Perhaps one of those "Middle Eastern students" who flunked aerospace exams... who was then was passed with "assistance", from Uni lecturers... has finally made his way into the design process??...
Investigators from the Ombudsman's office are believed to have discovered the cheating during an investigation into other damaging claims against RMIT.
They found evidence suggesting a long-serving teacher handed out an exam paper to a Middle Eastern aerospace student several days before the exam.
The student allegedly allowed other Middle Eastern students to use the exam paper to cheat.
Telephone records of the teacher and several aerospace students allegedly reveal late-night contact in the days before a test on the stress on aeroplane components.
For an aeroplane component to fail from fatigue, seems to indicate, that at least some calculations were faulty.
It is possible, however, that manufacturing problems in the forging or machining, did lead to the failure.
We rely on good, skilled people to do the necessary engineering detective work, as to just exactly how the failure happened, and what needs to be done, to ensure it doesn't happen again, within regular use limits.