Sounds to me that you live in a country that doesn’t see tennis ball-sized hail from storms that come out of nowhere.

“The brothers simply lied about their flights in 1903-1905.”

Smile when you say that, pardner.

Creaking Door- My post was directed toward an earlier post asking why the Germans murdered the 50 when they had done no real harm, not your comment.

1943, huh?

Then how do you explain that U-Boat and Enigma machine that Matthew McConaughey and the U.S. Navy captured in 1942 ! ?

Surely there must have been others, but there’s only one incident I’ve heard of in the US where shoddy work caused a crash. It was a PB4Y Privateer in California that was on it’s maiden flight from the factory. The port, outer wing portion fell off and the 6 guys on board were killed.

The investigation found that it was missing 98 attachment bolts that should have been installed. Consolidated fired the 4 men who had omitted the bolts and then signed off on the inspections without performing them, and the company was found to be grossly negligent in the deaths.

The story is explained much better in this link:

http://www.warbirds-eaa.org/featured/12Featured%20Articles%20-%20Vol.%2028,%20No.%2002%20-%20March%202005%20Failure%20at%20the%20Factory.pdf

Breaking it up in Texas will cost millions of dollars because of the regulations for controlling and cleaning up the asbestos and PCBs.

The Navy could have made another artificial reef with it, but that would have cost money, too.

Might have sold it to an Indian breaker yard or somewhere else unregulated and actually made some money on the deal, but that would create terrible publicity.

One of the best things about the old Ian Allen Publishing At War series is that each title includes first-person accounts from the ground crews that serviced each aircraft in the series.