[crabmusket]

> To be able to zero in on what turned out to be a single faulty part and then trace the entire provenance and environment that led to that defective part entering service speaks to the robustness of the industry.

And to be able to reconstruct the chain of events after the components in question have exploded and been scattered throughout south-east Asia is incredible.

[Gare]

My impressiom was that the defective part was still inside the engine when it landed.

[d1sxeyes]

Makes it even more impressive: the parts that were actually implicated in the explosion itself (and scattered from the aircraft) were not defective, so the investigation had to go through parts which did not seem to have exploded in order to track down the defect.

Or at least, I assume the turbine parts weren’t defective, although given what seems to be quite a happy-go-lucky approach to manufacturing defects in Hucknall, maybe my assumption is not made on solid grounds…

[EdwardDiego]

Probably a reference to other incidents. Shout out to the NTSB for fighting off alligators while investigating this crash... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValuJet_Flight_592