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To: naturalman1975

Ouch. That’s going to leave a mark. On their careers.


2 posted on 12/19/2009 2:05:04 PM PST by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: saganite

They got it airborne, and they got it back down on the ground with 275 souls on board. Whatever they did wrong, they did a lot right as well.


3 posted on 12/19/2009 2:07:59 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: saganite

Arab pilots? Same ones who put that plane through a wall a few years ago?


4 posted on 12/19/2009 2:09:35 PM PST by Mmogamer (<This space for lease>)
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To: saganite

This is 100% a design fcuk-up. Ask any engineer: how can you justify a typo causing (potentially) 300 deaths and $100,000,000 in damages.

The computers knew how many people were on board. They knew how much the fuel weighed, given the flight plan. How can they not know the total weight to within 20 tons? Let alone allow a 100 ton error?


26 posted on 12/19/2009 4:15:27 PM PST by RossA
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