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The airplane tail section that broke off several years ago CAUSING a horrific crash and loss of life. Was that poorly engineered? It certainly didn't fail quickly (I presume you mean time of usage before failure rather than rate of failure from onset). It lasted many years, hours of service and miles logged before failure.

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I find this topic interesting. Sincerely not trying to be argumentative. As for the airplane tail section severance, I don't think that may be a good analogy. Everything I read about it said the evidence did not point to engineering/stress fracture/failure per se. It sounds like the co-pilot was fighting turbulence by steering with the tail, something that is specifically against their training and known that it could lead to failure of the tail section. I guess it would be more akin to doing jumps off ramps with your CF bike/fork, not just riding it.

I've heard others using the tail fracturing as a reason to not use CF but I don't think the evidence supports that conclusion.

Thoughts?

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