The killing of Bill Cooper and Liquid Metal Embrittlement

[Petro]

On Wednesday, November 14, 2001, at 10:39 AM, Tim May wrote:
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> An LME solution smeared along wing or panel sections could cause 
> catastrophic failure during high stress flight phases, e.g., takeoffs 
> and, to a lesser extent, landings. We ran a few scenarios about how 
> easy it would be bring down an airliner, further spreading fear.

	Sounds like something Kissinger did in what, 1983?
	An Open Letter to the President published IIRC in Omni magazine.

> So what happened on Monday morning? From the reports I'm reading, it 
> looks like the tail section broke off shortly after takeoff, during 
> relatively high-g banking manouvers. CNN is saying this is an 
> "unprecedented" failure mechanism for the A300.

	Airplanes crash with an unsettling degree of frequency.

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