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Jan 29, 2012 | 4:51 pm

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lensman

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I think I might have reported it as well. There supposedly a woman on AQ 243 who noticed a small crack in the fuselage on boarding but didn't report it.

At 500 knots there's liable to be little warning between "trouble" and "catastrophic failure".