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MD-11 engine-mount fatigue puts aging cargo fleets under a microscope
The most consequential mechanical failures in transport aviation are often the ones which start as hairline cracks hidden inside a load path that “always worked” until it does not. In the UPS MD-11F ...
US investigators found fatigue cracks on pylon-mount components retrieved from the wreckage of the UPS Boeing MD-11 Freighter that crashed near Louisville on 4 November, killing 14 people, according ...
Could a single fractured fitting bring down a widebody freighter in seconds? The National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report on UPS Flight 2976 provides a sobering answer backed by frame ...
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