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Found: Galley Kitchen From Doomed Air France Flight Discovered Floating Intact In Middle Of Atlantic
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | June 18, 2009

Posted on 06/18/2009 12:58:32 PM PDT by Steelfish

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To: Owl_Eagle

Definitely not a high speed impact.

Another nail in the mid-air breakup coffin.


41 posted on 06/18/2009 1:34:45 PM PDT by Freeport (The proper application of high explosives will remove all obstacles.)
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To: Cementjungle

That’s incredibly intact.

Think about it. If that hit the water at 450 knots, the biggest piece there would be about the size of a matchbook.

That structure hit the water well below that speed. Probably less than 100 knots.


42 posted on 06/18/2009 1:36:57 PM PDT by Freeport (The proper application of high explosives will remove all obstacles.)
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To: silverleaf
OMG, airline food is not only indigestible, it is indestructible

So it's not a total loss. They'll salvage it and use it on another flight. No one will know the difference.
43 posted on 06/18/2009 1:49:02 PM PDT by Cheburashka (There is an unlimited supply of stupid, although a lot of people are trying to use it all up.)
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To: silverleaf
I recall a story from WWII about an American bomber crewman who bailed without a parachute from altitude and lived. He landed in tree branches and snow.

Tail gunner???

44 posted on 06/18/2009 1:49:42 PM PDT by colorado tanker ("Lastly, I'd like to apologize for America's disproportionate response to Pearl Harbor . . . ")
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To: TCats

Aircraft parts are built as light as possible. That galley would have had a relatively slow terminal velocity with its large area and light weight construction.


45 posted on 06/18/2009 1:53:44 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: Jewbacca
The tail is basically a little plane all by itself.

Unless the rudder falls first 'cause it was glued on by crappy French mechanics following crappy French blueprints drawn by crappy French engineers.

46 posted on 06/18/2009 1:53:59 PM PDT by naturalized
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To: djf
Usually though, if it’s a bomb, the loonies are lining up around the block taking credit for it. We haven’t heard a peep from the malcontents.

Not really. Some people cheer for the destruction but sometimes they want to keep on bombing so they say very little and live on to destroy another day.

47 posted on 06/18/2009 1:55:51 PM PDT by erman (Outside of a dog, a book is man's best companion. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.)
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To: silverleaf
“Supposedly a stewardess lived from Ron Brown’s plane crash in Bosnia too- but died enroute to hospital from punctured artery...”

A femoral artery. It HAD to be punctured by her ‘rescuers’ as you will bleed to death in a couple of minutes if the femoral artery is punctured.

It has happened to World Cup skiers on occasion, they bleed to death in front of the fans...

The ‘stew’ was a hit to keep her mouth shut.

48 posted on 06/18/2009 1:58:39 PM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth...)
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To: Leo Farnsworth
edit:
It has happened to World Cup skiers on occasion, they bleed to death in front of the fans AFTER A BAD CRASH BREAKS THEIR UPPER LEG BONE (THE FEMUR)...

Better now...

49 posted on 06/18/2009 2:00:45 PM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth...)
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To: Leo Farnsworth

You’ve thought about this - what’s your best guess about what happened with the “brown” plane crash? What was the motive - most of the people on the plane were contributors to dems, right? It’s always seemed odd to me too.


50 posted on 06/18/2009 2:01:21 PM PDT by GOPJ (...those who make non-violent revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.- JFK (Iran))
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To: Jewbacca
The assertion that “it could be worse” is small comfort to the pragmatic, because certainly, it could also be much better.

Good point.

51 posted on 06/18/2009 2:04:57 PM PDT by GOPJ (...those who make non-violent revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.- JFK (Iran))
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To: GOPJ
OOOOOH. There is lots of odd information on this...

The airport ‘transponder’ (if that's what it is called - it sends a beacon signal to the aircraft to let it know where it is and is going) was relocated prior to the crash.

All the press reported in unison that it was ‘the worst weather in 50 years’ - even though the weather was not bad.

It is rumored that Brown was shot - from the top of the head down towards his belly - when his head was x-rayed there was no bullet (didn't x-ray the body). Big ol’ hole in the top of his skull...

Oh yeah, to answer your question - Ron was going to be indited for multiple crimes when he landed back in the US. Would he have squealed on the Clintons? He successfully skirted his inditments.

At least that's how it looks from my chair, I could be wrong.

52 posted on 06/18/2009 2:13:37 PM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth...)
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To: Steelfish

It’s as though some undersea giant were picking up pieces and pushing them up to the surface, one by one.


53 posted on 06/18/2009 2:23:09 PM PDT by RoadTest (For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus - I Tim 2:5)
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To: kidd

“airline food is not only indigestible, it is indestructible
ok, I don’t care who you are, that one’s funny.”

I don’t think it’s funny and I don’t think it’s true, either.


54 posted on 06/18/2009 2:24:29 PM PDT by RoadTest (For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus - I Tim 2:5)
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To: Leo Farnsworth

Clinton Fake Crying at Ron Brown’s Funeral

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf8TOGrq8Bo

Says all you need to know about how it happened.

These are really evil people.


55 posted on 06/18/2009 2:25:23 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Jewbacca

“I also recall an airline that crashed. The flight attendant sitting in the jump seat in the tail lived and was basically unscathed -— tail spiraled down relatively gently.”

Happened in WWII as well. Battle. Tail gunner injured, immoble, can’t see up the fusalige. Feels plane getting yanked around. Worried about it holding together. Plane then stabilizes and comes in for poweroff landing, which goes OK. Tailgunner crawls out to discover that ONLY the tail and JUST the right foottage of fusilage to balance it is left of the plane. IFIRC the story is related in the book ‘The Story of the B-17’ by Herbert somone or other.


56 posted on 06/18/2009 2:49:25 PM PDT by TalBlack
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To: TalBlack

Ooops. The Book is “Flying fortress. The Story of the B-17”.


57 posted on 06/18/2009 2:55:45 PM PDT by TalBlack
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To: Steelfish

That’s great, they can re-use it in another airplane.


58 posted on 06/18/2009 2:57:09 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Leo Farnsworth
Would he have squealed on the Clintons?

It does explain why Brown only got one fake tear...

59 posted on 06/18/2009 3:26:26 PM PDT by GOPJ (...those who make non-violent revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.- JFK (Iran))
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To: Leo Farnsworth
Would he have squealed on the Clintons?

My biggest problem with your line of thinking - and none of us knows for sure - is why would the Clintons kill a bunch of dem donors along with Brown? It's kind of messy ... and the pilot - why would he crash and kill himself in the process? Was a voice recorder ever found? Oh wait - the plane didn't have one, right? It's too bad we don't have a press that's more trustworthy - or smarter when it comes to taking everything a dem says - hook - line and sinker. They might have cleared up some questions if they were able to look at the situation objectively. The MSM damages themselves. You could be right about this - or not - we'll never know. There were odd things about the incident.

60 posted on 06/18/2009 3:35:27 PM PDT by GOPJ (...those who make non-violent revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.- JFK (Iran))
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