Remember Aloha 243? (Score 1)

Anyone who thinks that aluminum is automatically better than composite fiber throughout the expected life of the airframe. would do well to remember Aloha Flight 243. That's the plane on which the cabin roof ripped off in 1988. The plane was older, of course -- but I thought that was Rather's point: that as CF ages, it will become failure-prone while aluminum wouldn't. Nothing is perfect. Heck, even I'm getting a little more failure-prone as I age.