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This is a page for airliner crashes caused by design failures or errors or by manufacturing errors. Pages in category "Airliner accidents and incidents caused by design or manufacturing errors" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
Henry Smolinski (1933–1973) was killed during a test flight of the AVE Mizar, a flying car based on the Ford Pinto and the sole product of the company he founded. [12] [13] Charles Ligeti (d. 1987) was killed in a crash in 1987 when testing modifications to his Ligeti Stratos aircraft of novel closed wing design.
Design flaw 0 Cargo door locking mechanism failed causing door to separate from the aircraft and causing further damage; landed safely 1973-05-18 Aeroflot Flight 109: Chita, Soviet Union Tupolev Tu-104: Terrorist bombing 81 Bomb put on board by hijacker 1974-03-03 Turkish Airlines Flight 981: Picardy, France MD DC-10: Design flaw 346
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Engineering disasters often arise from shortcuts in the design process. Engineering is the science and technology used to meet the needs and demands of society. [ 1 ] These demands include buildings , aircraft , vessels , and computer software.
The Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar is a VTOL aircraft developed by Avro Canada as part of a secret U.S. military project carried out in the early years of the Cold War. [1] [2] The Avrocar intended to exploit the Coandă effect to provide lift and thrust from a single "turborotor" blowing exhaust out of the rim of the disk-shaped aircraft.
Following the end of the war, Hall and Tommy Thompson designed and developed the Convair Model 116 Flying Car, featured in Popular Mechanics magazine in 1946, [2] which consisted of a two-seat car body, powered by a rear-mounted 26 hp (19 kW) engine, with detachable monoplane wings and tail, fitted with their own tractor configuration 90 hp (67 ...
A flying car or roadable aircraft is a type of vehicle which can function both as a road vehicle and as an aircraft. As used here, this includes vehicles which drive as motorcycles when on the road. The term "flying car" is also sometimes used to include hovercars and/or VTOL personal air vehicles. Many prototypes have been built since the ...