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My impressiom was that the defective part was still inside the engine when it landed.



Makes it even more impressive: the parts that were actually implicated in the explosion itself (and scattered from the aircraft) were not defective, so the investigation had to go through parts which did not seem to have exploded in order to track down the defect.

Or at least, I assume the turbine parts weren’t defective, although given what seems to be quite a happy-go-lucky approach to manufacturing defects in Hucknall, maybe my assumption is not made on solid grounds…


Probably a reference to other incidents. Shout out to the NTSB for fighting off alligators while investigating this crash... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValuJet_Flight_592




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