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John Mazor wrote:

One sufficiently bad pilot screw up = one smoking hole.

Talking of which, what's your current observation of the
fallout from AA587 ?

The flying pilot overcontrolled the rudder, leading to
aerodynamic forces that caused the structural failure.

This was a revelation to most airline pilots, who thought -
with good reason - that as long as you were at or below
maneuvering speed, you could make any control inputs you
want without breaking your airplane. It turns out that the
FAA certification standards only addressed one rudder input,
not multiple inputs as occured in AA587. The engineering
crowd was aware of this limitation, but nobody bothered to
communicate it to the people who actually fly the damn
things. Plus, there was the problem that at that speed, a
rudder pedal depression of only an inch or two would cause
maximum deflection. Not much margin for error there.

The issue of laminates wasn't resolved one way or the other,
except to say that there was no compelling reason to forbid
their use. Of course, that doesn't stop ambulance-chasing
lawyers from looking for some deep pockets into which to
thrust their bony fingers with their claims, but what else
is new?

The conspirowacko crowd's goofy theories will continue to
exist as long as there is a paying market for their
products.