Originally Posted by Nosmo King

It did, thats why there was also an Emergency AD issued for the 777.

I will say that from an engineering standpoint, composites scare the hell out of me...

Have you ever seen a sailboat mast snap? Do you think there are ways to detect an impending composite failure like there are with aluminum and other alloyed metals?

That is one of my big worries about the newer aircraft being manufactured by both Boeing and Airbus. Every succeeding design keeps using more composites in structurally critical areas.

Maybe the saying should be modified to "If it ain't an OLD Boeing, I'm not going.: