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Re:Armchair air crash investigator by austenallred on Sunday July 07, 2013 @01:23PM (#6002629)
There were a lot of reports like these that were complete assumption based on the fact that one witness said the airplane had flipped over. It actually hadn't.
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Re:Armchair air crash investigator by dmourati on Sunday July 07, 2013 @05:00PM (#6003453)
O RLY? http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/07/us/plane-crash-main/index.html...
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Re:Armchair air crash investigator by coin on Sunday July 07, 2013 @07:06PM (#6003996)
That is not a cartwheel
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Re:Armchair air crash investigator by dmourati on Sunday July 07, 2013 @08:25PM (#6004283)
Why, because the plane was not 100% vertical on the Z-axis?
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Re:Armchair air crash investigator by coin on Monday July 08, 2013 @12:50AM (#6005236)
Yes
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Re:Armchair air crash investigator by JshWright on Sunday July 07, 2013 @02:00PM (#6002771)
Just like the comment that Michael Hastings' car crash 'sounded like a bomb' resulted in all sorts of assumptions that the car exploded.
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Re:Armchair air crash investigator by stcredzero on Sunday July 07, 2013 @02:16PM (#6002836)
I don't think airframes have quite the strength to flip end over end from contact with the ground, even at landing speeds. I can grab this pen rom my desk and throw it on the carpet so it flips vertically end over end. A 777 airframe might do something halfway between that and crumbling as it bounces.
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