Discussion for article #242390
I think a lot of headline writers misunderstand the meaning of “doomed.”
Of course the inspecting technician is going to say plane was okay. Anything else he said would likely be a ticket to the gallows. To his credit, I am giving greater credence to the tail strike the airframe suffered in 2001. Any cracking of structural members would likely have been invisible to anyone doing a preflight. If the cause, as the aircraft records darn near every flight control anomaly every flight, the issue becomes how the responsibility for the crash gets divvied up.