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Old 08-12-2006 | 06:36 PM
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I wouldn't want to get in it if it were fixed. You don't know what internal damage it caused. It could do a payne Stewart and blow a bulkhead on climbout and you are toast, or the wing mounts could be fractured and it won't show up for years. I remember a 421 that had a hard landing and no damage. 11 years later a guy was straight and level at 1000 feet in smooth air and the wing came off. They traced it back to a crack that occured during that hard landing from the inspection logs they did on the hard landing inspection.
That should not have happened !
Even if the wing failure is directly related to the crashh 11 yrs previous, which I doubt....
On that Citation I mentioned, once the damaged wing was off, we had to inspect the wing attachment points with 3 different methods :
Flourescent dye penetrant, eddy current and x-rays ! The same applied for the main gear attachment poits in the undamaged wing.