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Sounds like the plot of Michael Crichton's book "Airframe" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airframe_(novel)

(Though in this case the parts were found before anyone was hurt/killed!)

+1 for that book. I’m surprised no one has yet tried to work it into a movie or at least a made-for-TV movie.

IIRC (its been decades I think) that book was pretty critical of the unions working at the plant. Good luck getting that made in today's environment.

I feel that way about many of Michael Crichtons books.