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Airplane crashes provide an excellent opportunity for failure analysis. IMHO its kind of a decent fit, but the final report will be a better fit.

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This is quite ghoulish and fits into the latter category IMO.

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It's the kind of thing you probably wouldn't hear about on TV news unless you were in that same geographical area. It's interesting not because it's a disaster but because of the engineering and (presumed) avoidability involved... the "what went wrong?" angle.

This is all over the US media, there's no engineering content here yet, just a disaster.

shrug We'll just have to disagree.

Agreed.

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