Explosive Fatigue: The Square Windows That Tore Jets Apart

The De Havilland Comet was an absolute marvel of British engineering-the world's first commercial jetliner, promising to shrink the globe with unprecedented speed. But within a year of its triumphant launch, the planes began spontaneously exploding mid-flight in the clear blue sky, plummeting into the Mediterranean Sea without warning. The culprit was not sabotage or pilot error, but a devastati...