Black Box: finding yesterday's warning signs in 225,000 maintenance reports
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On 1 April 2011, Southwest Flight 812 lost a five-foot strip of fuselage skin at 34,000 feet. Everyone survived. The NTSB's final report described fatigue cracks along one lap joint, stringer S-4L. Here's the part that keeps you up at night: mechanics had filed reports about cracked clips on that e…
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Black Box: finding yesterday's warning signs in 225,000 maintenance reports