Originally Posted by
flyths1
Folks....I say this Airplane is TOAST....It will never fly and sad to say may cost many their jobs.
The fix is probably easy...slightly stronger stringer rods. Easy on production airplanes, but a huge PITA on the test airplanes which are already built. Delays and possible order cancellations, but it will not kill the airplane.
Assuming they don't find even more problems when they go to higher stress levels... anyone know if they stopped the test at the first failure? I imagine so.