Posted on 06/03/2009 10:30:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The vast area over which debris has been found suggested there was an explosion while the aircraft was in flight.
Unnamed experts quoted by the Le Monde newspaper said the "wide dispersion of wreckage discovered suggests that the Airbus (A330-200) exploded at high altitude".
Terrorism has not been ruled out but they said the most likely scenario was that the break-up was caused by massive depressurisation inside the plane.
If such depressurisation had occurred at high altitude, passengers would have almost certainly fallen instantly unconscious and may have been unaware of the their fate.
Professor Philippe Juvin, head of casualty at Beaujon hospital west of Paris, said: "It would have been as quick as the moment when one falls asleep."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Lib media will bend itself into contortions attempting to cover up Islamic terrorism that happens on Dope-bama’s’s watch. Nothing can possibly go wrong with Smokey McKenyan in charge, right?
It’s sickening.
I've heard the same about the Lockerbie Pan Am crash, and yet many of the victims were found clutching crucifixes or embracing, suggesting, horribly, that they were alive until ground impact.
Been there, done that... but not an "Explosive Decompression" at 450+knots and below 0 temps... You would most certainly die immediately... Hopefully.
See post 103...
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