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To: chudogg

Like to see an Airbus(t) do this...

23 posted on 10/15/2005 10:06:41 AM PDT by HolgerDansk ("Oh Bother", said Pooh, as he worked the bolt.)
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To: HolgerDansk

LOL!!!!!


24 posted on 10/15/2005 11:42:47 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
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To: HolgerDansk

WOW!!!!

That is one heck of a pic!

I seem to recall seeing a pic of an F-15 (or was it F-14) with a wing almost completely missing landing on a carrer.


26 posted on 10/15/2005 11:47:57 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Lord, help me with me, I ask so little of you...really..)
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To: HolgerDansk

Actually a Airbus just lost it's tail "AGAIN" in Cuba and managed to land. Unlike the BUFF it was plain material fatigue in the Airbus case. Fortunately this one was able to land, unlike the one that crashed from a similar structural failure shortly after 9-11.

http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/c-gpat/photo.shtml

The Airbus crash statistics let a lot to be desired, and those airframes tend to have a lower mean age, are used less in third world countries (first hand customers), and fly out of nice paved, long, ILS etc supported airports.

Red6


27 posted on 10/15/2005 11:51:37 AM PDT by Red6
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