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But the board stressed today that it had not ruled out structural defect, or perhaps mechanical failure that could have caused the rudder to move.
"It appears it was some kind of mechanical failure, that or a pilot failure," Sergeant James said, adding that no allied forces were on the plane.
Technicians had been scrambling most of Sunday to fix a mechanical failure that left the reactor far more vulnerable to explosions.
Although in all likelihood they will have to wait until Bahrain to clinch it, since Audi, bulletproof on reliability, have not suffered a mechanical failure that ended a race for two years.
More likely, she said, investigators will find that it was some human or mechanical failure that caused the accident, in which the 22-story crane damaged nearby buildings and destroyed a small townhouse.
The Bush administration's energy task force announces its report today, and President Bush would do well to note the public's concerns about the combination of human fallibility and mechanical failure that can set off catastrophic accidents at nuclear plants and about the link between nuclear waste and nuclear weapons.
"We've probably had four or five mechanical failures that could have been catastrophic," Mr. Nikas said.
Combined with various mechanical failures, that caused damage to the core, and, according to the script, radiation escaped inside the containment dome and then was released to the outside.
SEPANG, Malaysia (AP) -- Spurred by the disappointment of mechanical failures that cost him victory in the first two races of the Formula One season, the Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel led from start to finish to win the Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday.
Factory testing initially revealed mechanical failures that were reduced by the use of redesigned components, greatly improving reliability.
The report by BP's investigation team published today takes this demolition job a stage further by itemising a host of human and mechanical failures that it believes were responsible for the accident.
