Me and M’boy took a ride in FIFI, an 81 yr old B-29. I was thinking of her age as she started her takeoff roll…81!yr old metal…
Fascinating indeed🙂
But afaik, the life expectancy of an airplane is more the number of flying hours than the chronological age. Furthermore, keeping it in good mechanical order will also extend its reliable operating life.
I am however afraid that the crashed aircraft had been used for considerably more than 10,000 flying hours, and it didn’t have all the necessary maintenance done in recent years, or maybe very little at all 🙁🙏🏻