In article , Mike Marron
wrote:


I was hoping a mechanical engineer type would speak up.
Now getting back to the "nuts & bolts" (pun intended) part of the
issue at hand here, please explain why or why not you think that
an F-4 could pull enough G so as to rip the ECM pod off the belly?

From what I've seen in the industry, ripping a pod off under normal
(or abnormal) circumstances seems unlikely.
However someone pointed out that maintenance actions could be
to blame. I remember the engine that fell off the DC-10 in Chicago
was blamed on maintenance procedures.

Some possible reasons: corrosion, overtorquing, undertorquing,
misalignment, etc.

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Harry Andreas
Engineering raconteur