Cool airplane disaster story

[Smokinrav]

Set up: a known flaw in the early 747 cargo doors was not addressed by Boeing. Start at 31:25

 

[ZeroK]

Are you familiar with the de Havilland Comet, the world’s first commercial jet airliner. It had 3 mid flight catastrophic failures in it’s first year

 

[Smokinrav]

Are you familiar with the de Havilland Comet, the world’s first commercial jet airliner. It had 3 mid flight catastrophic failures in it’s first year

Yes! This channel is awesome! You have to skip about 3/4 of it if you dont want detailed forensic analysis, but his description of death is so non-plussed, like you'd expect of an airline captain.

 

[wiggins]

Are you familiar with the de Havilland Comet, the world’s first commercial jet airliner. It had 3 mid flight catastrophic failures in it’s first year

The de Haviland Comet disasters were strangly predicted by Neville Shutes book 'No HIghway' a few years before. Metal fatigue was a new concept then.

I think the square windows allowed stresses to form cracks which in time allowed it to rip apart.

And the winner of this all was the 707

 

[Smokinrav]

Found another one. SwissAir flight 111

tl;dr SwissAir upgraded their flight entertainment system without properly testing voltage, running new lines properly, and using faulty insulation.

Start at 38:20

 

[Solomon Kane]

Boeing, inspection,