[tankerslay]

"Scandal" should be avoided because it "degrades the trust of the public in the profession." An age-old saw trotted out to justify the cover-up of diverse kinds of negligence and malfeasance in all manner of professions the world over.

It works precisely until there is a scandal too big to cover-up.

[angersock]

There are always degrees of uncertainty in any physical engineering project. It doesn't help anybody to have the general public being told to second-guess the work.

Why do you think otherwise?

[jessaustin]

All four experts in TFA independently identified the same problematic strut, "11", after a weekend of unpaid work. That doesn't sound like "uncertainty" to me.