To: Moonman62
Point is that landings and takeoffs usually entail vectors of travel that are oblique to the ground, not a perpendicular impact against which there is little or no opportunity to recover.
63 posted on
09/26/2013 12:37:09 PM PDT by
fwdude
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To: fwdude
Point is that landings and takeoffs usually entail vectors of travel that are oblique to the ground, not a perpendicular impact against which there is little or no opportunity to recover. Airplanes rarely suffer a catastrophic structural failure and lose a wing or a control service and auger into the ground.
Even a complete loss of power at altitude is recoverable:
Gimli Glider
90 posted on
09/26/2013 12:51:28 PM PDT by
justlurking
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