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Outside tucson, arizona. >> you can see up here the pylon assembly, in which the engine rests on the pylon and then its attached to the wing. >> it looks like an arm that the engine is hanging off of. thats a very complicated piece of structure. it has to be designed to take a heck of a load from the engines. >> investigators also scrutinize the planes service history. and thats where the puzzle pieces start to come together. it turns out not to be a design flaw. its a troubling maintenance prac...

Rests on the pylon and its attached to the wing. >> it looks like an arm that the engine is hanging off of. thats a very complicated piece of structure. it has to be designed to take a heck of a load from the engines. >> investigators also scrutinize the planes service history. thats where the puzzle pieces start to come together. it turns out not to be a design flaw. its a troubling maintenance practice. >> the whole issue of the accident centered on the maintenance practice of changing an engi...

>> you can see the pylon assembly, on which the engine rests on the pylon and its attached to the wing. >> it looks like an arm that the engine is hanging off of. thats a very complicated piece of structure. it has to be designed to take a heck of a load from the engines. >> investigators also scrutinize the planes service history. thats where the puzzle pieces start to come together. it turns out not to be a design flaw. its a troubling maintenance practice. >> the whole issue of the accident c...

>> you can see the pylon assembly, on which the engine rests on the pylon and its attached to the wing. >> it looks like an arm that the engine is hanging off of. thats a very complicated piece of structure. it has to be designed to take a heck of a load from the engines. >> investigators also scrutinize the planes service history. thats where the puzzle pieces start to come together. it turns out not to be a design flaw. its a troubling maintenance practice. >> the whole issue of the accident c...

>> it looks like an arm that the engine is hanging off of. thats a very complex piece of structure. it has to be designed to take a heck of a load from the engines. >> investigators also scrutinize the planes service history. thats where the puzzle pieces start to come together. it turns out not to be a design flaw. its a troubling maintenance practice. >> the whole issue of the accident centered on the maintenance practice of changing an engine with this pylon attached as opposed to the more co...

Its a troubling maintenance practice. >> the whole issue of the accident centered on the maintenance practice of changing an engine with this pylon attached as opposed to the more correct and approved procedure, which is to take the engine away from the pylon away from the engine while attached to the airplane. >> the manufacturer recommending detaching the engine to the pylon, but leaving the pylon attached to the wing. at the time, engineers from several airlines were using a shortcut. they fo...