Re:Door blows off Boeing 777X during stress test
by ajross on Friday September 06, 2019 @10:43PM
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You expect things stressed beyond limits to break where you expect them to, and the point of the test is to show that the failure modes are the expected ones. Having a door pressure seal fail explosively during an airframe stress test sounds to me very much like an UNexpected failure mode. That's bad.
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Re:Door blows off Boeing 777X during stress test
by inferiorhuman on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:53PM
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It's doubly unexpected as, in theory, the 777X is just a variant of the 777, itself a plane that didn't blow its doors out under testing.