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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — Metal fatigue on a fan blade ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Federal investigators say metal fatigue appears to be a factor in a mishap involving a United Airlines plane bound for Honolulu. We’re Hawaii’s weather station, get the latest ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has cited evidence of "metal fatigue" as a contributing factor in the engine failure of a Southwest flight that made an emergency landing and resulted ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- Take a wire paperclip. Now, bend it back and forth in the same spot 15, maybe 20 times. Chances are the paperclip will have broken before you finish. This is due to what's ...

Fatigue due to repetitive strain is the leading cause of failure in metal components and structures, but new research shows how crystalline structures called nanotwins can slow the accumulation of ...

For the second time in four months a 240-ton leaf of a main Ohio River miter-gate lock has failed, severely restricting shipping and signaling, once again, that it can be perilous to depend on aging ...

US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators found evidence of metal fatigue in the left engine of the Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 that made an emergency landing at Philadelphia ...

The jet engine fan blade that broke loose on a United Airlines plane Saturday near Denver, triggering a massive failure leading to the grounding of dozens of Boeing 777s, resulted from metal fatigue, ...

Damage to a fan blade that led to parts of the engine a United Airlines Boeing 777 jet to break apart mid flight last weekend was likely caused by metal fatigue, the National Transportation Safety ...

U.S. NTSB investigators determined metal fatigue is suspected as the reason a fan blade fractured just before an in-fight engine failure suffered by United Airlines Flight 328 on Feb. 20, board ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- NTSB investigators are trying to figure out why a piece of an engine tore off during a Southwest Airlines flight that took off from LaGuardia, and broke the window of the Boeing 737 ...