lol at another threads blown out of proportion by the Chinese member here.
First of all, Engine dismounting (or part of Engine Dismounting) is one of the quite common technical issue for aircraft that had an accident, engine was bolt on the wing with 4 to 8 large bolt, and these bolt were not inspect until the engine comes out, and it does not do that until you hit the most extensive check, which for Civil Aviation, it's the D Check. Or Airworthness check (You do them when you change the aircraft registration)
A D-Check does not perform regularly, roughtly every 6 years in civil aviation, and it willtake LONGER in military aviation as they don't fly Military aircraft as frequent as Civil aircraft. So if there are anything happened to the bolt, it could take upto 10 years to find out.
Another thing is, B-52 is a VERY OLD plane, the last one come out of production is in July 1962, that's 54 years ago. No B-52 airframe are yonger than 50 years. Old plane felt aparts. It have nothing to do with maintence issue or build quality, infact, this is the FIRST engine seperation for an aicraft that have been in continous operation in over 50 years. That alone is a testiment on build quality.
Of course, this is a serious issue nonetheness, but this is not about how inept the USAF maintence crew were nor how bad is the USAF Aircraft quality, it's solely about ages of aircraft. When an aircraft reaches certain age, it started to fall aparts, and they should ram up the maintenance regime to reflect the old age of this bomber, better yet, replace them.
But it's always fun to look at some people open their mouth without knowing the topic at hand, LOL
