NTSB engineer says carbon fiber hull from Titan submersible showed signs of flaws

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – The carbon fiber hull of the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic had imperfections dating to the manufacturing process and behaved differently after a loud bang was heard on one of the dives the year before the tragedy, an engineer with the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday.

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