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I think it would be better to find out if the FAA requires it and I would bet that they do.

IT appears yes. https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/AC_25.307-1.pdf

 

[lovinthehd]

Does the insurance company want to pay out tens/hundreds of millions of dollars in the event of a crash?

Probably not but what does that have to do with it? Insurance companies never WANT to pay

 

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Probably not but what does that have to do with it? Insurance companies never WANT to pay

And if the operator of the aircraft doesn't want the financial liability, they need insurance, which would and should require some kind of maintenance schedule, right?

I seriously doubt that any maintenance supervisor would say "Just put some duct tape on it, slap it on the ass and let it go".

 

[lovinthehd]

And if the operator of the aircraft doesn't want the financial liability, they need insurance, which would and should require some kind of maintenance schedule, right?

I seriously doubt that any maintenance supervisor would say "Just put some duct tape on it, slap it on the ass and let it go".

We'll see. I'm not saying maintenance was horribly neglected or even at fault otoh, just it's more likely than sabotage (at least intentional sabotage). Regular airlines have insurance too and it happens to them on occasion. Could have been a defect in the basic manufacture/materials. Apparently it did go thru a major service fairly recently so they'll be going thru those records carefully. From the timing of the black box results I saw, nothing conclusive there and it happened at exactly the wrong moment, in that the plane would have to continue with take off due speed attained at that point.

 

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[Dude#1279435]

Chicago- what a mess. Trump should have closed the borders and moved on. But he cannot help himself. All I ask for Xmas is he never gets the Nobel. Such a dumb idea to begin with.

 

[GO-NAD!]

And if the operator of the aircraft doesn't want the financial liability, they need insurance, which would and should require some kind of maintenance schedule, right?

I seriously doubt that any maintenance supervisor would say "Just put some duct tape on it, slap it on the ass and let it go".

I think it would be a given that they have a maintenance schedule. And, the maintenance may have been performed IAW said schedule. However, it wouldn't be the first time that a mechanical failure was induced due to maintenance being conducted incorrectly.
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/hmcs-kootenay-disaster

The salient parts:

On 23 October, Kootenay was in the North Atlantic, approximately 210 nautical miles west of Plymouth, as part of a task force of 10 ships and on its voyage home. The ship was sailing with a full complement of 12 officers and 237 seamen.
Early that morning, the Kootenay and HMCS Saguenay broke off from the task force to conduct full-power sea trials, routine tests conducted every quarter. Shortly after 8 a.m., while running at full power, the crew reported hearing a sound like “a rising organ note." Seconds later, a massive explosion rocked the engine room, sending a massive fireball through the ship’s main interior passageway. Within minutes, thick black smoke had spread throughout the ship.

In December, the investigation found that the explosion in the ship’s gearbox was caused by human error — a faulty installation during a refit four years earlier.
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“The explosion is considered to have been caused by the spontaneous ignition of oil and oil vapour through the gross overheating of the high speed pinion bearings," the investigation report concluded. "The cause of the overheating was the incorrect fitting of the insert bearing shells, which resulted in the direct oil supply being completely cut off.”

Anyway, every suggestion as to the cause of this aircraft crash is just wild conjecture right now.

 

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I think it would be a given that they have a maintenance schedule. And, the maintenance may have been performed IAW said schedule. However, it wouldn't be the first time that a mechanical failure was induced due to maintenance being conducted incorrectly.
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/hmcs-kootenay-disaster

The salient parts:


Anyway, every suggestion as to the cause of this aircraft crash is just wild conjecture right now.

Metal fatigue is tricky- a part might look OK, but it also may have been stressed to the point where it yields at the worst time. Now that all MD-11s have been grounded for inspection, we'll see if it's an isolated case or a common problem that hasn't reared its ugly head.