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Metal fatigue has been associated with the type of engine failure experienced with Southwest Flight 1380. The media suggests that it was unusual for this type of failure to occur at cruising altitude.

Metal weakness like the fatigue found in a jet engine that exploded during a Southwest Airlines Co. flight on Tuesday can lie hidden for years and elude detection with even the most advanced ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has cited evidence of "metal fatigue" as a contributing factor in the engine failure of a Southwest flight that made an emergency landing and resulted ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — Metal fatigue on a fan blade ...

The jet continued to climb and cleared a fence before its left main landing gear hit the roof of a UPS warehouse beyond the ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- Take a wire paperclip. Now, bend it back and forth in the same spot 15, maybe 20 times. Chances are the paperclip will have broken before you finish. This is due to what's ...

The deadly engine explosion on Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 could be more than just an isolated incident. The engine is one of the most common in the world, used on more than 8,000 Boeing 737 ...

For the second time in four months a 240-ton leaf of a main Ohio River miter-gate lock has failed, severely restricting shipping and signaling, once again, that it can be perilous to depend on aging ...

Damage to a fan blade that led to parts of the engine a United Airlines Boeing 777 jet to break apart mid flight last weekend was likely caused by metal fatigue, the National Transportation Safety ...

U.S. NTSB investigators determined metal fatigue is suspected as the reason a fan blade fractured just before an in-fight engine failure suffered by United Airlines Flight 328 on Feb. 20, board ...

A team of materials scientists and engineers affiliated with several institutions in China has found that one of the major reasons solid-state lithium batteries fail over time is metal fatigue in the ...