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		mjg59 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto... It's probably preferable to have the wing break off than for it to apply sufficient stress to the fuselage that the fuselage disintegrates - you're going to lose the wing either way and if you're in the air that's going to be bad, but if you're on or near the ground it's probably preferable to have an intact fuselage?

stouset 11 months ago [–]

Wings don’t really transmit much stress to the fuselage. You can think of both wings as a single unit on which the fuselage rides.

The fuselage couldn’t take a fraction of the stress the wings are designed to endure.

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