Over Queens - carbon fiber tail snapping due to take off too close to jet ahead of it.
I wonder if the stress and turbulence cause dthe carbon fiber A330 to shatter like carbon fiber will do.
I will stick to Boeing aluminum thank you.
I think you make a great point about preferring metal over plastic, regardless how advance the plastic is. But, in point of fact, I believe that it was the metal bolts that affixed the tail to the fuselage that actually failed, not the composite material itself.
Having said that, I would prefer a fully metal plane over something else.
>>I wonder if the stress and turbulence cause dthe carbon fiber A330 to shatter like carbon fiber will do.
This is what I have been thinking. Carbon fiber is very light and strong but is very brittle and doesn’t bend at all. When its damaged it will shatter.
LQ
The vertical stabilizer snapped off not just due to the wake turbulence, but due to overly-aggressive rudder inputs made by the first officer which caused enormous stress on the stabilizer and exceeded design limits, at least according to the NTSB.
And about that Boeing aluminum... have you heard of the 787? From Boeing's website:
Boeing has announced that as much as 50 percent of the primary structure - including the fuselage and wing - on the 787 will be made of composite materials.
Stay off the 787 when it comes online and any 737 that is built after the 787. The fuselages will be carbon fiber.
“I wonder if the stress and turbulence cause dthe carbon fiber A330 to shatter like carbon fiber will do.
I will stick to Boeing aluminum thank you.”
You may want to look up what happened to BOAC flight 911.