Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
by komali2 on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @09:58PM
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In some of the cases you mentioned, there were passenger deaths due to being ejected from the aircraft. I'm on mobile or I'd link exactly which incidents but I remember at least two cases from when I was bored in a lecture and read through most of Wikipedia's "list of deaths in aircraft incidents" list or whatever it's called
Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
by WalterBright on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @10:05PM
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Yes, there are passenger deaths from some of those incidents. But the plane wasn't brought down.
Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
by shiroiushi on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @01:06AM
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>Poking holes in the fuselage of a jetliner isn't going to take down a plane. Consider the cases of
These are all fake news. According to Hollywood, a single bullet from a gun will cause an airplane to break apart in mid-air. You can't honestly expect me to believe Hollywood movies get physics wrong.
Similarly, as soon as a car's wheels leave the ground, it bursts into a fireball according to many TV shows I've seen.
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Take a look at all the photos of B-17s taking severe combat damage yet returning home. Jetliners are a lot more redundant today than the B-17s were.
However, if the hole took out the flight controls, or set a fire, then the airplane has a big problem.