[contessa machiaveli]

i didn't realize planes were so fragile. wings falling off? please.i'm not sure which is worse...an act of terrorism or planes seemingly made of cardboard. this has been "solved" a bit too fast for me.

[hankbrown]

I agree. If this is so very possible -- how come it has never happened before? I realize there is a first time for everything - but wake and connector? Seems like a fairly common event (wake) and mechanical situation (loose connectors).

[ChemistCat]

As far as things being "solved" too fast, the WTC crashes were solved when the second one hit. Didn't take long to realize it was deliberate suicide attack. Sometimes the cause of a crash isn't as subtle as we'd like it to be. Remember Challenger? The wonder of Challenger was that we FOUND such a subtle answer.

Thanks to the engineer above who reminded me that acceleration is a vector...yeah, that makes a difference. My femur can handle 1.8 just fine, but the bones in my inner ear might not be so happy with that, if the vector was wrong.