To: Jael
I'll take one of your questions: I believe that the last 3 emergency abort landing sites are some place in Spain, Ben Gurion airport in Israel, and out at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean (God help somebody if they have to try for one of these!).
431 posted on
02/02/2003 4:10:13 PM PST by
alancarp
(hindsight is 20/20, but useless at a funeral)
To: alancarp
Oh, and for the record, those emergency landing areas can only be used before insertion into orbit (i.e., during lap #1 of the earth).
435 posted on
02/02/2003 4:11:38 PM PST by
alancarp
(hindsight is 20/20, but useless at a funeral)
To: alancarp
for some reason I think one is in scotland at some raf base?
To: alancarp
never mind, misread your comment, was thinking of re-entry, not aborted take-off
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