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...week went on, the experts' suspicions were also directed at the aircraft's rear bulkhead, an aluminum-alloy partition that separates the pressurized cabin from the non pressurized tail assembly. Hiroshi Fujiwara, deputy investigator for the Ministry of Transport, said that the bulkhead was found at the crash site and that it had been "peeled like a tangerine." It was possible, he said, that if the partition had cracked in flight, the air rushing from the cabin could have had enough force to dislodge the hollow tail fin. American experts theorized that the large number of takeoffs and landings, each...
When they arrived, officers found Snyder attempting to push open a bulkhead door leading into the basement, McNamara said...
...four-hour flight you know) and put down the linen tray cloths, but it was quickly turning into a rugby scrum in the aisles. The cabin crew held up remarkably well - dealing with hundreds of requests to pose or get out of the way as the 'Machmeter' on the bulkhead slipped past Mach 1 and headed for our final destination of Mach 2 and 56,000 feet. The attendants discreetly looked the other way as passengers looted the plane, taking everything from menus and coasters to even the salt and pepper shakers (which have no Concorde designation on them...
Bowles and other AFX employees say Evergreen's mishandling jeopardized crucial flight-safety items such as smoke detectors and flight-control systems. Bowles says Evergreen failed to find one of the most worrisome defects: corrosion in a vital structure. AFX discovered that bolts in the rear pressure bulkhead--the essential internal wall that supports the plane's airframe--were badly corroded...
...probably be full of men who drank with your dad. So when you went to one of these ports, and you wanted to know where the tattoo parlor was and the bar with the naughty ladies, they'd say, "Listen, son. You'd better stay here and paint that bulkhead. Your mother wouldn't like that...