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One thing to remember is that commercial jets have very thin aluminum skin. It's very unlike your car door which is typically thicker steel sheet. When jets cra
by nether 11y ago
One thing to remember is that commercial jets have very thin aluminum skin. It's very unlike your car door which is typically thicker steel sheet. When jets crash the wreckage is shredded metal laying flat on the ground. So they're more fragile than they seem.
- SixSigma 11y agoThee skin is aluminium lithium alloy. 1mm generally but in some places on the craft it is milled down to 0.5mm The latest jet liners A380 / 787 are made from composites, even their body. Many other craft have composite wings.