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 Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 5:17 pm Post subject: 601Wing Failures - a different perspective601Wing Failur |
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Hi David,
You could well be right. However, the story I heard was it was a resonance problem in the long fuselage tube. It would break in half when the resonance struck and the plane would suddenly be two halves of a plane.
After receiving your message, I decided to do some research on the net to see what I could find on the Electra structural failures. It sounds like you are at least as close to the real truth as I was. Here is a quote from one of the articles I found: "In two of the crashes, in-flight structural failures caused by weakness of the engine mount that led to excessive vibration had torn the aircraft apart. "
I also found a number of other accident related articles which seemed to indicate all sorts of other problems like how the cargo was loaded. Similarly, I remember years of explanations of all the V-tail Bonanza break-ups being explained by poor pilot skill. That worked well since none of the pilots survived to defend themselves. Then, after they issued a design change strengthening the rear fuselage the break-ups stopped. I guess it is really hard to determine exactly why a plane breaks up in flight and there may be many false reports before the final truth is reached - if it ever is. Indeed there may be many reasons that all work together to end the plane's flight.
Paul
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At 04:52 PM 12/23/2007, you wrote:
[quote]not to be too picky Paul, but I thought I recalled the issue with the early Electras to be a engine/nacelle whirl mode pnenomenon?[b]
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