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This is the Tragedy of Delamination all over again. I coined the phrase half in jest, modeled on a TV-ad phrase (the tragedy of psoriasis, as I recall), after it turned out that a commercial airline flight went down near JFK Airport two months after 9/11 because a carbon-fiber failure allowed its tail to snap off. Now it looks as if a carbon-fiber failure allowed Titan’s pressure hull to implode. Admittedly, we don’t know yet. But a lot of effort will go into finding out, because (as in that plane crash) lives were lost.



Maybe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_587, though the Wikipedia page dismisses concerns about the composite’s strength.




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