>
>> Looking at the one photo it appears that the #3 engine (right side
>> inboard) disintegrated.
>>
>
>
>There was some controversy, I gather, as to the cause of the accident. I saw
>a film of it years
>ago during a safety course. In that it appeared to break up, starting from the
>wing.
>
No doubt about that, but the directions that the debris is flying away
from the wing root, some almost perpendicular, suggests an explosion. If if
had been a failure due to metal fatigue the debris would have just trailed
behind at a much smaller angle.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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