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Originally Posted by afterburn 549

I have no clue of its age (jeff would know or have access to it) but if they had unsecured load shift I am not sure how that would have caused an audible boom outside the plane?

One of the reports that I read said that someone thought they “heard lightning” (not sure how that works) and they did fly through a storm shortly before the crash, so maybe it was a thunderstorm?

Originally Posted by Nate2046

I’m not going to speculate as to cause, but an uncontained failure isn’t something I’d rule out. Certification doesn’t always translate to real world results.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_383_(2016)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines_Flight_1288

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_32

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1380

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232

I know, that’s why I said slight chance. Anything is possible. For it to auger in like that would have to be something totally catastrophic, they didn’t even have time to make a radio call. Even the DC10 example that you linked was able to make a controlled crash landing.