> This test was intended to push the plane to its limit. Not close to, but actually up to the limit, so it was actually expected to fail somewhere around this p

> This test was intended to push the plane to its limit. Not close to, but actually up to the limit, so it was actually expected to fail somewhere around this point. I would assume that even in a failure scenario the fuselage is expected to fail gracefully instead of catastrophically. By gracefully I mean having a fuse-like failure mode, where the whe system remains operational while a controlled failure is observed in a specific component. For example, a safety valve door blowout or at best a window/door blowout. This test shows none of that. This test shows that Boeing's planes fail catastrophically.