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To: floralamiss

Can you imagine several hundred thousand pounds in lengths of hundreds of feet cartwheeling? Nuh-uh. There would be millions of little bitsy pieces and that’s about it.


527 posted on 07/06/2013 3:30:56 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: blackdog

Horrible, horrible! :-(


566 posted on 07/06/2013 3:57:39 PM PDT by floralamiss ("For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.")
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To: blackdog
Can you imagine several hundred thousand pounds in lengths of hundreds of feet cartwheeling? Nuh-uh. There would be millions of little bitsy pieces and that’s about it.

No need to imagine - a similar-sized United DC-10 cartwheeled in Sioux City, Iowa in 1989. Video here.

The amazing thing: 185 people survived.

624 posted on 07/06/2013 5:27:43 PM PDT by xjcsa (Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
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