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To: buccaneer81
"Of course it was. Like millions of flights before it."

That's about the failure rate of anything mechanical on a plane - MILLIONS of flights.

How many flights did it take for a piece of FOD to be picked up by a tire and hurdled into a an engine of a Concord causing a catastrophic explosion - hundreds of thousands (or more) for just one aircraft type? Or, maybe that was a missile too.

Catastrophic mechanical failures are rare. However, that doesn't mean that they don't happen.

50 posted on 04/13/2011 10:40:53 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: OldDeckHand

You’ve never followed the histories of the Comet or the DC-10, have you?


51 posted on 04/13/2011 10:48:19 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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