What will be interesting in this accident, is unless similar non manufacture recommended MX procedures were used as was the case with American, or that this was a one off manfucature defect. This would actually fall squarely on Boeing (Who owns the liability now.).

Strange that it took this long for a common failure mode to occure on the MD-11 though.

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