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To: Zakeet
Remember the British “Comet Jet” of the late 1950s?

One of these monster devils will suddenly have a major structural failure AT speed and AT altitude, and the poor bugger driving it won't have time to hit his radio transmit button before he's in minus sixty degree air, and flying along with the thousands of independent and disconnected little pieces that used to be his airplane.

If it happens over deepwater, it could take months to even find the debris field...

8 posted on 01/19/2012 1:16:05 PM PST by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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To: William of Barsoom
If it happens over deepwater, it could take months to even find the debris field...

And no one will remotely conceded that the forementioned cracks had anything to do with it...

12 posted on 01/19/2012 1:34:58 PM PST by Lou L (The Senate without a filibuster is just a 100-member version of the House.)
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