Takata Corp, the Japanese supplier at the center of a global vehicle recall, ordered its technicians to destroy results of tests on some of its airbags after finding cracks in inflators, the New York Times reported. The tests were carried out on the inflators -- steel canisters that contain an explosive used to inflate the bags in a collision -- after an accident in 2004 when an inflator in a Honda Accord exploded, ejecting metal fragments and injuring the driver, the newspaper reported on its website late Thursday.
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