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Video from a temporary break in the smoke suggests the plane split apart just forward of the upright tail fin(term?).


537 posted on 08/02/2005 3:00:10 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat (E-Hominy.com is corny)
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News conference: plane overran runway by 200 meters. Can't confirm, but believed to be 297 passengers and 12 crewmembers, no known fatalities, 14 minor injuries. Everything unconfirmed.


547 posted on 08/02/2005 3:02:13 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat (E-Hominy.com is corny)
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upright tail fin(term?).

Vertical stabilizer.

573 posted on 08/02/2005 3:05:29 PM PDT by Tarheel (Nothin' could be finer than to be in Carolina in the morning.)
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