Air Crash Investigators Chapter 53

The media exposure was like a raging fire, roasting the NTSB and GCAA on the grill.

While dealing with the media's fierce snooping and interviews, both parties accelerated the progress of the experiment. Three days later, the NTSB and GCAA received the experimental results almost at the same time.

While reading the test report, Maiha said: "Based on the shedding of the fragments on the flap, the experiment estimates that there is an 80% chance that the aluminum alloy skin on the upper surface of the flap peeled off, and a 20% chance that the flap wing blades fell off directly. The Boeing 777 aircraft used by Emirates Flight 411 had just been in service for four months when the crash occurred. The possibility of metal fatigue is extremely low. Initial suspicion is that it may be a maintenance error such as screws."

As soon as he finished speaking, the representative of Emirates immediately frowned and said, "Emirates has never made a mistake in maintenance. We would rather let an aircraft never take off than repair it carelessly!"

Maiha looked up at him and said, "This is just a suspicion. It may not be that Emirates made a deliberate mistake. In the 1990 British Airways Flight 5390 accident, the maintenance department of British Airways used screws 2 mm smaller than the standard size when repairing the windshield of the aircraft, relying only on the naked eye to distinguish. As a result, the windshield of the aircraft fell off at high altitude, and the captain was sucked out of the cockpit. If it was a careless mistake in maintenance, it is not impossible."