Aircraft engine hydrogen cracking failure

Coda from the previous session — a critical aircraft engine production line that blew up from hydrogen cracking, costing $40M, with a second one scheduled to come online two months later that they "dodged."

They realized this was a critical path, and the volume was increasing. They had another one scheduled to come on stream two months after this one actually blew up. So they actually dodged that bullet. How'd you like to have no new aircraft engines for three years? That was partly a hydrogen cracking problem. Only cost forty million dollars. So there's lots of stories of hydrogen cracking.

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