Quote Originally Posted by jim_p View Post
Do you have any actual data from the extensive FAA crash reports that backs up your alarming claims? Sounds like there should be quite a few documented cases of E-AB planes crashing due to failures of bad welds. I don’t doubt that it has happened, but I don’t recall it being in any of the lists of reasons for E-AB fatalities that the EAA, FAA, kit mfrs, and others have been working on diligently.
I did a search on the NTSB database, for aircraft flagged as homebuilt in which the word "weld" is mentioned in the Probable Cause. I found eighteen cases from 1998 to 2016, roughly one per year. Three resulted in fatalities.

http://www.wanttaja.com/weld_failures.pdf

Ron Wanttaja