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To: Edgerunner

No.

Catastrophic airliner mechanical failure modes are, obviously, rare, or planes would be falling out of the sky left and right.

Only one engine has fallen off a DC-10 in flight, for example.


13 posted on 05/04/2007 11:07:38 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist

I think they found it and fixed it (sort of).


36 posted on 05/04/2007 11:45:48 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Strategerist
The bum cargo door locking mechanism didn't help the DC-10, either. I don't remember how many planes suffered catastrophic decompressions before the problem was located and fixed.

Too late for the airframe to continue service as a passenger transporter, though.

But soon enough to function as a cargo plane.

Ironic, no?

45 posted on 05/04/2007 12:10:15 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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