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December 22nd 05, 01:56 PM
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Broken wing
Way back, I believe the first jet passenger jet was the Lockheed
Electra. The plane mysteriously fell out of the air and very thorough search for a cause was instituted. In the end, again if I remember correctly, the conclusion was that the wing spar failed from fatigue because the wing was nutating, a slight circular motion due to gyroscopic effects. Maybe that's the same thing caused the FL seaplane crash. 
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