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To: _Jim
I thnk the 'bright light' they saw was the #3 and #4 engines fodded and and issueing flames as the engines had been fodded during UAL Flt 811's event years ago were ...

I see. Two fodded engines on fire, for between two and five minutes, as TWA 800 climbs out over the Atlantic, and not one distress call? No fire warning lights? No hysterical passengers in the rear of the plane screaming THE PLANE'S ON FIRE!? Nobody had a clue that the plane was burning?

Even if two engines were on fire, at that speed and altitude the flames would have cooked the engines, but not made the aircraft explode. There would have been no way that the pilots would not have received cockpit fire warning lights, and declared an emergency. Even on the very remote chance that the pilots didn't know that two of their four engines were on fire, those "fodded" engines would not be making power, and they would have noticed THAT and immediately declaired an inflight emergency and requested priority revectoring to JFK or La Guardia.

Your theory is the most ridiculous one I've heard yet. I give the "errant meteorite" theory more credence than yours.

25 posted on 06/23/2003 10:52:20 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: Yo-Yo
Your theory is the most ridiculous one ...

You obviously aren't familiar with previous accidents involving the B747 series of aircraft AND cargo bay doors ...

That makes you highly uninformed and ignorant on this topic.

Your simplistic 'scenario' overlooks several IMPORTANT factors as well, such as severed radio and power cables -

- AGAIN, you appear TOTALLY unawares of previous B747 accidents INCLUDING one very well documented csae involving UAL Flt 811 WHICH incidently made it back damaged BUT with a large, gaping hole in the fuselage where a number of people were sucked out AS WAS luggage into engs 3 and 4 (FODDING them).

Come back SOMETIME in the future after you're better informed as to the facts on previous B747 'events' ... I don't make it a habit of discussing highly technical issues that entail a lot of detail involving complicated systems with the uninformed or idiots ...

26 posted on 06/25/2003 1:18:07 PM PDT by _Jim
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