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"On the 8th of September 1989, a Norwegian charter flight carrying employees of
shipping company Wilhelmsen Lines abruptly plunged from the sky off the coast
of Denmark, plummeting 22,000 feet in a matter of moments as the pilots engaged
in a futile battle for control. All 55 people on board were killed as the plane
broke up in flight, scattering wreckage over a wide area of shallow seabed. As
Norwegian investigators launched an inquiry into what was at that time the
worst air disaster in the history of both Norway and Denmark, focus centered on
the aircraft itself: an aging, dilapidated 1953 Convair 580 with a convoluted
modification record and a history of major mechanical problems. In the end,
however, it would take several years for Norway’s Aircraft Accident
Investigation Board to come to the astonishing conclusion that Partnair flight
394 was brought down not by a run-of-the-mill structural failure, but by a
bizarre series of converging problems which caused the plane to literally
vibrate itself apart in flight. And at the center of the story was a danger
which, at least in commercial aviation, had until then been largely
theoretical: counterfeit aircraft parts, which looked genuine at first glance,
but couldn’t stand up to the conditions of normal operation. The implications
of this finding would ultimately send authorities scrambling in the United
States, as the Federal Aviation Administration launched a confrontation with a
multi-billion-dollar shadow industry which continues to this day."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
