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Re:Boeing engineer: more evidence on the assassination of Po... by seele on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @08:34AM (#4659483)
The overreaction of pilots couldn't make 100 tons of steel to break into pieces 30 meters over the ground.
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Re:Boeing engineer: more evidence on the assassination of Po... by p_l on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @08:44AM (#4659534)
Except it's not 100 tons of steel. It's a very delicate structure of tons of parts, and the part that got damaged wasn't the most resilient (nor did it account for 100 tons of steel). Breaking into pieces happened when the whole plane hit the ground in the worst possible (for airliner) way - upside down. At over 180 km/h.
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