Originally Posted by
WHBM
Not a new phenomena. Don't forget the DC-10 hold doors, where the manufacturing subcontractor repeatedly stated the latching design was an accident waiting to happen.
There's a little more to it than that. The infamous "Applegate memo" which came from within Convair and explained the dangerous relationship between a cargo door latching failure, floor collapse and loss of hydraulics was actually withheld by Convair's own management, not MD's. Where MD were culpable was that they knew of the cargo door latching failure - in isolation - during their own tests.