Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gcc-milo.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!dual!vecpyr!lll-lcc!lll-crg!seismo!harvard!gcc-milo!john From: john@gcc-milo.ARPA (John Allred) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: JAL crash Message-ID: <384@gcc-milo.ARPA> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 10:12:05 EST Article-I.D.: gcc-milo.384 Posted: Wed Nov 6 10:12:05 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 10:13:25 EST References: <373@gcc-milo.ARPA> <4515@alice.UUCP> Reply-To: john@gcc-milo.UUCP (John Allred) Organization: General Computer Company, Cambridge Ma Lines: 17 In article <4515@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) writes: > >More details please. Last I heard, Boeing had agreed to pay "damages" >on the assumption that they might have been responsible, with the >understanding that if the investigation eventually exonerates them, >they get their money back. The details are a bit fuzzy in my head, but I seem to remember Boeing admitting that the rivets on the repair plate didn't go all the way through the 3-layer plate. The end result was metal fatigue (remember, the 747SR has high take- off/landing cycling): the plate let loose, and various chunks of metal started flying around. -- John Allred General Computer Company uucp: seismo!harvard!gcc-milo!john