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To: muawiyah
A bolide coming in on a low trajectory would describe a path exactly as the one which was reported to have been seen.

Except that there is is no record in all of human history of a bolide causing any damage to anything whatsoever. What a wild coincidence that the first destructive one in human history happens to impact a high-speed jet in flight. And since a bolide is an exploding meteorite, it would have to time it's explosion to the exact moment it encountered the airplane -- wow! coincidence upon coincidence! Go read about Occam's Razor. Besides, that kind of wild theory might work for one witness observation from one angle, except that when you add up the hundreds of witnesses from different angles and perspectives up and down the curving coastline that saw the event, you get an object rising from the ocean as the only geometric possibility.

You are entitled to your theory, and a rare exploding meteorite makes about as much sense as the previously unheard-of exploding fuel tank, an event that has never occurred in the hundreds of thousands of operational hours of similar planes in hotter environs.

Occurrences of planes being shot down at the end of a streaking trail on the other hand, are far more common. Occam says go with that theory.

213 posted on 07/19/2006 8:09:39 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (California bashers will be called out)
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To: ElkGroveDan

Just couldn't get past your first sentence. Try: http://imca.repetti.net/metinfo/metstruck.html


214 posted on 07/19/2006 8:12:11 AM PDT by muawiyah (-/sarcasm)
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To: ElkGroveDan
BTW, Occam says many more meteors hit the Earth every year than all the rockets fired in history.

So, go with that one eh!

215 posted on 07/19/2006 8:14:59 AM PDT by muawiyah (-/sarcasm)
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