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Old 4th May 2016, 23:13
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Outwest
 
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No, not instantaneous failure, I don't believe it.
I agree. What safety factor do you think EC would have built into those suspension bars? Double, triple? Meaning that if the design gross weight is 11000 KGS how many G's of loading would they design it for? 3 G's? 4G's? Look at what Spectral has described how the 725 is operated.

So with that in mind and knowing the load capabilities the other 2 bars must have, would a very slow decent on an a/c relatively lightly loaded have such a catastrophic failure with no warning even if and I do mean IF one bar failed?

Seems pretty hard to believe, for me who has zero experience/knowledge with either design or maintenance of a 225.
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