Quote Originally Posted by OakLeaf View Post
Not sure that's relevant since an airplane, once crashed, is NOT going to be flown again ...
Oh you think so…. sure if it's catastrophic and all that's left are little pieces, but it's actually kind of scary some of the airplanes that they've refit and reflown…… There's an amazing video of a plane that lands so hard the tail falls off…. granted it was a test plane and the hard landing was kind of intentional (it ended up being harder than they really meant), but apparently the plane had a new tail fit and went on to have a long life as a test plane - eek!