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To: Velveeta
...the break-up was caused by massive depressurisation inside the plane.

I'll defer to anyone with more recent experience if I'm blowing smoke on this, but as an ex-aerospace engineer, I call that line of wordsmithing absolute BS.

Depressurization (at least they could spell it properly) typically RESULTS after a hull failure, window or door loss, but the only cause I can think of for a sudden and catastrophic break up of an aircraft is OVERPRESSURE.

Such as an explosive device going off.

(And don't even bother with "the lightning strike caused it" meme: Been in an aircraft that was struck by lightning and never caused an explosion, even when we were packing a load of bombs.)

868 posted on 06/03/2009 12:11:09 PM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet (Only things in the middle of the road are paint stripes and roadkill.)
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To: Unrepentant VN Vet
but as an ex-aerospace engineer

From what I'm reading, your assessment of the cause of overpressure...seems increasingly likely.

874 posted on 06/04/2009 9:36:38 AM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Unrepentant VN Vet

Dunno about the motive, but the circumstantial evidence, the bomb threats, the devastating breakup, all point to a bomb.

The amount of tiptoeing around this smells.

All electronic systems simultaneously!


886 posted on 06/05/2009 12:39:55 PM PDT by swarthyguy ("We may be crazy in Pakistan, but not completely out of our minds," ISI Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha)
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