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I was discussing this today with a friend who is a chief metallurgist for P&W, and he mentioned something that puts this into perspective, ie. apparently the bobsleds running at the olympics are pulling 5.2G's going 90mph in a lateral turn.
Think about that for a moment, and then consider that for this crash the guy was doing over twice that speed and his G inducing pull was vertical ! I don't know the math on this, because we can't calculate the "unknown pull-up" but I can certainly see how easy it would be to snap a piece of wing off given what we believe occured.
Anybody want to bet a $100- burger that the word corrosion never comes up in the final report?
"watch this"
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