Just watched an Air Crash Investigation episode in which the investigators studying the wreckage say that a certain bolt shearing off during flight caused the crash. How can they tell that the broken bolt was during flight and not because of the crash?

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Just watched an Air Crash Investigation episode in which the investigators studying the wreckage say that a certain bolt shearing off during flight caused the crash. How can they tell that the broken bolt was during flight and not because of the crash?

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Without knowing the specific incident being mentioned, it’s probably a case where a single point of failure somehow caused/led to a loss of some flight control, or some important instrument.

That loss of information or additional workload could contribute to a loss of control of the plane.

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