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More cracks found in Airbus A380 wings (and EADS insists they're still safe to fly)
Reuters ^
| January 19, 2012
| Tim Hepher, Cyril Altmeyer, Harry Suhartono
Posted on 01/19/2012 12:35:15 PM PST by Zakeet
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This is gonna make a super-jumbo mess if those government subsidized experts are wrong!
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posted on
01/19/2012 12:35:26 PM PST
by
Zakeet
To: Zakeet
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posted on
01/19/2012 12:38:38 PM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Zakeet
If it's not a Boeing, I'm not going.
Not that I'll go anyway, what with the TSA bullstuff.
/johnny
To: Zakeet
I’m going to go find an AIRBUS picture Jigsaw Puzzle. That should be an accurate depiction.
To: Zakeet
"They do not affect safe operation of the aircraft."
Until they do.
To: Zakeet
I’m going to go find an AIRBUS picture Jigsaw Puzzle. That should be an accurate depiction.
To: Zakeet
"Additional cracks have been found and we are working closely on this issue with EASA," an Airbus spokesman said. "They do not affect safe operation of the aircraft." Of course they don't. Why, our research even indicates that cracks in major structural elements of passenger aircraft, just a few years into their expected decades-long service life, actually enhances passenger safety.
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posted on
01/19/2012 1:04:23 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
To: Zakeet
Remember the British “Comet Jet” of the late 1950s?
One of these monster devils will suddenly have a major structural failure AT speed and AT altitude, and the poor bugger driving it won't have time to hit his radio transmit button before he's in minus sixty degree air, and flying along with the thousands of independent and disconnected little pieces that used to be his airplane.
If it happens over deepwater, it could take months to even find the debris field...
To: Zakeet
If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going!
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posted on
01/19/2012 1:16:42 PM PST
by
Bobalu
(Newt is just the a-hole we need at a time like this)
To: Steely Tom
So the cracks affect the unsafe operation of the aircraft.
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posted on
01/19/2012 1:18:07 PM PST
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: Zakeet
I wouldn’t get on a 172 that had cracks on the wings. I don’t care how much redundancy is built into the 380....THERE’S A REASON THE CRACKS ARE THERE.
To: William of Barsoom
If it happens over deepwater, it could take months to even find the debris field... And no one will remotely conceded that the forementioned cracks had anything to do with it...
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posted on
01/19/2012 1:34:58 PM PST
by
Lou L
(The Senate without a filibuster is just a 100-member version of the House.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
I guess it's not all it's cracked up to be.
Delta launch this evening from KSC
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posted on
01/19/2012 1:42:44 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(Limbaugh: Tim Tebow miracle: "He had atheists praying to God that he would lose.")
To: Zakeet
Cracks in the wing? What’s the big deal — it has two.
Am I qualified to be an Airbus PR guy, or what?
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posted on
01/19/2012 1:48:42 PM PST
by
sphinx
To: Zakeet
It will be a safe aircraft until a wing comes off, then it won’t so safe.
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posted on
01/19/2012 1:52:05 PM PST
by
count-your-change
(You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: count-your-change
....well ...we already had an EADS delaminated tail fin.....not shure what model.
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posted on
01/19/2012 2:12:19 PM PST
by
spokeshave
(Ron Paul finally lit a match after dousing himself with gasoline)
To: Zakeet
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posted on
01/19/2012 2:17:56 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> - - -)
To: Zakeet
These morons are going to have to loose one of these (and a couple of hundred people) before they do anything.
I wonder if the FAA can prohibit a particular aircraft model from operating in US airspace...
At least the debris from the thing coming apart in flight won't rain down on American heads.
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posted on
01/19/2012 2:30:21 PM PST
by
grobdriver
(Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism - No Fascism - Nobama - No Way!)
To: spokeshave
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posted on
01/19/2012 2:51:33 PM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Zakeet
The A380 design and manufacture was heavily influenced by politics. What could possibly go wrong?
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posted on
01/19/2012 2:57:10 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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