[libertylover]

Despite specific prohibition of the technique, the maintainance company was using it.

Are you saying that the maintenance being performed on the UPS plane in 2025 was using the same technique that caused the 1979 crash? If so, that's big-time criminal, but what is your source for this claim?

[T.B. Yoits]

Are you saying that the maintenance being performed on the UPS plane in 2025 was using the same technique that caused the 1979 crash? If so, that's big-time criminal, but what is your source for this claim?

I'd have to go digging back to November. A report surfaced when the FAA grounded the MD-11 fleet after the UPS crash, identifying that stress cracks were found on other aircraft that had been serviced at the San Antonio maintenance facility.

That specific aircraft was in for major repairs in September and October, just prior to the November crash.

[T.B. Yoits]

"The preliminary report from NTSB now confirms what investigators suspected early: the critical mount hardware holding the engine to the wing showed both fatigue cracks and overstress failure-a structural compromise that triggered the deadliest crash in UPS history."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/ntsb-finds-fatigue-cracks-in-ups-md-11-engine-mount-linking-to-dc-10-failures/ss-AA1QSsVW#image=1

[T.B. Yoits]

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.