[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Paul

The door that blew out is apparenly held on by 4 bolts, that really doesnt sound like many.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67906367

As mentioned in another thread, I’m an “Aircrash investigation” obsessive.

It may interest you to know that the tail of the Airbus A300, the Airbus equivalent to the 737, is only held on by three bolts.

And in 2001 a pilot over stressed the tail ( or vertical stabiliser) by wiggling the plane to avoid wake turbulence from the plane in front, and it sheared off.

The plane crashed killing all 260 on board.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americ...nes_Flight_587

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/...fig1_279693318