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Default Metal theft. The biters bit
On 26/01/2012 00:14, wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:42:01 GMT, (Cynic) wrote:

Heck, I could come up with a situation in which opening a window
caused the death of 100 people.

The designers of the Comet certainly did.

Rubbish, it was nothing to do with the "opening of a window", it was
caused by in-flight metal fatigue as a result of the flexing of the
airframe. The origin of the crack started in the corner of a navigation
window on top of the fuselage which was square in shape. It was the
shape of the window(s) which caused the problem, rather than the opening
or closing of it.

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