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To: libertylover

There was something at the time where all the other airframes in addition to MD-11s that were grounded were inspected and not found to have cracks from fatigue over time, pointing to the UPS plane having cracks from being overstressed as was the pylon in the 1979 crash.


12 posted on 01/15/2026 8:28:03 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

I realize that they found similar stress cracks to the 1979 crash, but I hadn’t heard they were using the same “engine + pylon” procedure that was used in 1979.


13 posted on 01/15/2026 11:15:42 AM PST by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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