RageJon wrote:https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/news/national/why-does-a-beautiful-airplane-break-up-in-the-sky/article18447534/
Not sure if you have read this at all
Yes thanks , and all the individual accident reports from the accidents mentioned from the NTSB and Transport Canada.
Fundamentally the aircraft is structurally sound.
The reality is that there is always a reason for in flight break ups.
In the article mentioned the first two are due loss of control because of continued flight into icing and thunderstorm conditions respectively.
The third was due to loss of control due pilot disorientation following a vacuum pump failure which affected the artifical horizon the main instrument used for maintaining straight and level flight.
In all three cases loss of control resulted in a spiral dive and the break up of the aircraft as it exceeded it designed structural Manouevering speed.
Loss of control is a reoccuring theme.
Whilst this aircraft had had its problems including re-certification ordered by the FAA , the irony is that due to its initial chequered history the Malibu now has the distinction of being the most thoroughly tested single engine aircraft out there.
The problem has always been with pilot training ,with many not having sufficient respect for the complexity of this type of high performance aircraft.