Matt Whiting wrote:
Morgans wrote:
"Matt Whiting" wrote

Not likely with an aluminum structure. The failure will quickly
lessen the stress on the remaining structure and it will not
self-destruct. I'm still waiting to see the video of this
self-destructing wing. I'm betting it is urban legend, but if
there's proof I'd love to see it.

I remember seeing a show on the making of the 777, and it was in a
giant wing testing rig, and it failed as was predicted at some certain
spar number, but a bunch of the rest blew apart too, since when the
one place failed. all of the stress was transferred to many other
locations.

That type of failure is the only way I can see it all failing at the
same time, too.

The odds of the whole wing failing at once is......Astronomical!

I agree and that was my point. Having a few sheets of the skin fly off
in close proximity to the spar failure point does not constitute
self-destruction of the week as was claimed earlier. I just watched the
777 video and it is quite clear from both the visual evidence and the
narrators comments that the wing failed at a specific location.

Not sure how "week" got in there in place of "wing", but you get the
meaning. :-)

Matt