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Nondestructive Inspection Quantification
and Aviation SafetyFigure 1-2
Figure 1 - The Aloha Airlines disaster of April 1988: could this dramatic instance of catastrophic failure have been averted through nondestructive inspection?
Figure 2 - Qualitative representations of the concept of damage tolerance, where opportunity for detection is during the period when the damage grows from a detectable level to a failure level: (a) deterministic scenario; (b) probabilistic scenario.
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