44,000-lb. wind turbine blade busts loose while in operation and careens to the earth—media wonders if the industry has a ‘quality’ problem

This doesn’t seem cosmic, but if a 44,000-pound chunk of fiberglass/epoxy resin that’s as big as a 747 airliner breaks off the tower of a wind turbine and comes hurtling down to earth while in operation, something is very wrong.

Apparently though, that wasn’t as obvious to the journalists in the mainstream media as it was to me.