What caused these new aircraft to structurally fail catastrophically?
This case study explores three separate accidents involving the de Haviland DH-106 Comet 1 aircraft, G-ALYV at Calcutta, G-ALYP at Elba, G-ALYY at Naples, and fatigue testing accomplished on G-ALYR. All three accidents encountered inflight breakups with no warnings. Everyone perished in this series of accidents. What caused these new aircraft to structurally fail catastrophically? […]