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Yup, typical septic scum.... trying to save a few bucks by contracting work out to back street chop shops......! You get what you pay for !
Is this really the level of literacy for professional journalism in the US? 'Four years later, on a June afternoon, the 57 passengers on ValuJet Flight 597 heard a loud bang as the plane bolted down a runway in Atlanta. Shrapnel from the busted engine ripped through a fuel line. The engine and cabin caught on fire.' -- Veggie Dave http://www.iq18films.co.uk "To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin." Cardinal Bellarmine
I take it you missed the part where the article said "the crack *PROBABLY* would have been discovered and the engine part replaced." I emphasised the important word so you can understand where the buck passing starts. If you fly in planes, expect something to break one day.
I saw a prog on TV where an air crash was blamed on a poor repair made 12 years prior to the accident. (A China Airways plane) A week may be a long time in politics, but a decade in aviation isn't.
ISTR it was a Japanese 747 A bodged repair to a rear pressure bulkhead caused a fatigue failure. The pressurisation cycle of each flight gradually caused cracks to propagate and eventually it let go. A 747 is a rather large pressure vessel pumped up to around 8 to 10 psi above outside pressure at altitude. The sudden failure caused a pressure wave to slam the interior of the tailplane structure causing catastrophic structural failure. Aviation safety can be like a swiss cheese, eventually the holes will line up and the shit hits the fan.
Something. IIRC, the repair bloke only used a single row of rivets and a bit of glue where he should've used a double row of rivets. Mind ewe, a repair that lasted 12 years can't have been *all* that poor and I reckon there must've been plenty of chances for another technician to pick up on the fact that the repair wasn't as good as it could've been. This accident did result in the introduction of hand held laser scanners (or summat) though, so repairs can now be checked more speedily/thoroughly than before. Not that that fills me with confidence. Well you know what happens when you use the wrong sized rivets to hold the front windows in, don't you? But... A friend of mine who's a helicopter pilot in Oz took a bloke for a 600 mile round trip in a Long Ranger so he could walk his dog on the fucking beach.
