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The Global Hawk that crashed in the UAE earlier this year (while returning from a mission over Afghanistan) suffered a control failure due to a bolt that had been installed backwards by Northrop Grumman. This caused a rod that controls the tail to fail, sending the plane into a crash. --Stephen V Cole


 

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