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To: ScreamingFist
yeah and then the remnant of the birds are spewed out with such force that they knock the tail off before the engine has time to fall.

Lucy's got some "splainin to do"

101 posted on 11/13/2001 6:40:33 AM PST by WestPoint90
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To: WestPoint90
"yeah and then the remnant of the birds are spewed out with such force that they knock the tail off before the engine has time to fall"

Think of a turbine wheel spinning at 40,000 RPM, now imagine it coming apart. Looks like a bomb going off.

104 posted on 11/13/2001 6:42:22 AM PST by ScreamingFist
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To: WestPoint90
"yeah and then the remnant of the birds are spewed out with such force that they knock the tail off before the engine has time to fall.

no, then the turbine blade are damaged enough to begin spinning out and slicing off pieces of the plane...like the stabilizer. Anyway, no one is a bigger conspiracy theorist than me, but I think this one smells like bird strike.

172 posted on 11/13/2001 7:18:33 AM PST by Keith
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