Can the Loss of One Small Component Cause a Plane to Crash?

Name: Can the Loss of One Small Component Cause a Plane to Crash?
Uploaded: 2022-07-18
Duration: 239680
Description: Experts are doubtful that the loss of a plane’s leading edge was enough to have brought down Flight 2574, on September 11, 1991. So they set about recreating the exact same conditions, in the form of an engineering simulation.

Experts are doubtful that the loss of a plane’s leading edge was enough to have brought down Flight 2574, on September 11, 1991. So they set about recreating the exact same conditions, in the form of an engineering simulation. (03:59)