Comet Passenger

What caused all the failures in the first DeHavilland Comet airliners?

Why are some of the first aircraft passenger DeHavilland Comet has significant failures, causing a crash? Why not any other airline here in America use kites?

both responses are correct and explain a little more, the windows were almost a perfect square, with sharp points at each corner, when the cycles of cabin pressurization in each takeoff and landing of the metal around these sharp cuts in the fuselage fatigue and flexible, it still happens today, but since then there are "correspondents" or "stringers" installed in the fuselage, running front to back and installed about every 10 inches around the inside circumference of the fuselage, these absorb the flex and transmit it over the crossbar, in addition, the fuselage has what is called a "window belt" is an area of greater thickness attached on the fuselage of the window openings are actually bleached original comet had correspondents in many or a belt of window in the fuselage. When the corners openings for windows starting due to fatigue cracks, the crack spread violently and large fuselage sections are opened and started, because there was no structure to stop migration of the cracks. Think of it as you are ripping a bath towel in half, while in the middle sections of the towel that starts fairly easily, upon reaching the border stitching is more difficult. comet on the "borders sewn" was about 4 feet away from where the cracks begin and when they got so far do not stop.

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