Faulty Planes

Air Force inspectors have found eight F-15s with cracks in the main support beams, or longerons, that surround the cockpit, prompting the grounding of the entire fleet of 442 A-D model F-15s. Similar stress damage was found in an F-15 that crashed in Missouri last month.

Faulty Planes

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