>I've seen first hand the horrendous amount of corrosion which can hide in a 50 year old aeroplane and not be found until the wings are removed. If it's such a

>I've seen first hand the horrendous amount of corrosion which can hide in a 50 year old aeroplane and not be found until the wings are removed. If it's such a problem, how come there hasn't been a single case of a in-flight structural failure from corrosion of any strut-braced Cessna? In fact there have only been two cases of structural failure in 172s, both of which appear to have been caused by trying to do aerobatics: https://www.ntsb.gov/about/employment/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=20030123X00096&key=1 https://www.ntsb.gov/about/employment/_layouts/ntsb.aviation... http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=45260 http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=45260