>>> When the first 787 crashes that plastic plane will shatter into a zillion parts and burn up. <<<
As opposed to an aluminum plane that breaks up into a zillion pieces and burns up?
It doesn’t really matter what it’s made of; any aircraft auguring into the ground is going to ruin your day.
Heh, that was my first thought as well.
Or deep sea diving in the airbus case.
Fly on lots of ABs, I’ll take Boeing any day.
“auguring into the ground”
Now there is an old Test Pilot term I haven’t heard in a while. Chuck Yeager used it often in his books.