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Hidden pylon cracks tore MD-11 engine off during takeoff
A fatigue crack buried inside an engine mount can remain invisible until the instant it becomes catastrophic. That ...
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The tiny MD-11 pylon crack that triggered catastrophe
A widebody freighter can survive enormous aerodynamic loads, but not every threat arrives as a dramatic overload. In the UPS ...
Boeing issued a 2011 service bulletin warning MD-11 operators about potential spherical bearing assembly failures in engine pylons, the same component now at the centre of the NTSB investigation into ...
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