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Re:Some airlines and regulators ground 737 Max in wake of Et... by dsfyu404ed on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:29AM (#19367886)
The corners on the windows did have a fairly large radius. Just not large enough (hindsight being 20-20). I think they knew about it and thought they had more than enough margin for safety and then never thought twice about it until aircraft started falling out of the sky.
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Re:Some airlines and regulators ground 737 Max in wake of Et... by willyt on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @11:15AM (#19368942)
I oversimplified. It was understood in specific academic circles and to an extent by leading designers, but not widely by others. The cracks actually started at a hatch on the bottom of the plane which was added to the design without going through the full engineering design QA process.
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Re:Some airlines and regulators ground 737 Max in wake of Et... by hvidgaard on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:59AM (#19368147)
Then it wasn't well enough understood...
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