Tail Section of Flight 587 Cracked Off, Investigators Say
Failure of Plane's 'Composite' Fittings Cited in American Crash

By Don Phillips and Michael Powell
Washington Post

NEW YORK, Nov. 14 -- The vertical tail section of American Airlines Flight 587 cracked off when its modern reinforced plastic "composite" fittings failed, investigators said today, and the National Transportation Safety Board announced that American will inspect the tail section of all its similar Airbus A300-600 widebody planes. The Federal Aviation Administration said it was dispatching its chief scientist to examine the composite materials as well.
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Why am I thinking that 'composite materials' and 'fittings' are handy euphemisms for Bondo and Superglue?