Turbine blade failures are something which simply has to be accepted as a statistical likelihood. They're going to happen, because we're building machines that push materials and physics to the limits of endurance.
If you're uncomfortable with it, don't step in a machine that relies on something rotating at 20k rpm.
Those machines that were designed and built by competent white men are now being maintained by companies that care more about filling diversity quotas than merit.
No amount of inspections will eliminate turbine blade failures. Too many inspections will probably increase them. But every time one happens, the conclusion will be that it could have been caught. Because although people will readily accept risk and carry on, authorities which exist to mitigate problems can never adopt that as their official stance. It would negate their reason for existing.
Turbine blade failures are something which simply has to be accepted as a statistical likelihood. They're going to happen, because we're building machines that push materials and physics to the limits of endurance.
If you're uncomfortable with it, don't step in a machine that relies on something rotating at 20k rpm.
Those machines that were designed and built by competent white men are now being maintained by companies that care more about filling diversity quotas than merit.
Admiral Cloudberg recently covered the Qantas 32 incident (also an uncontained disc failure, but on an Airbus A380):
“For engineering purposes, disk fragments are assumed to have infinite energy at the moment of release; they will cut through any reasonable material and cannot be contained.”
"Yeah I try to avoid flying."
"Lol wtf is wrong with you planes are perfectly safe."
Did you miss "Atlas is probably skimping on blade inspections"? He's not saying human failure played no role.
Both interpretations are true.
No amount of inspections will eliminate turbine blade failures. Too many inspections will probably increase them. But every time one happens, the conclusion will be that it could have been caught. Because although people will readily accept risk and carry on, authorities which exist to mitigate problems can never adopt that as their official stance. It would negate their reason for existing.