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To: PAR35

If folks got put there okay, wonder if it was due to a well-trained captain and crew...If so, hats off to them! Reports are less than a couple of dozen sent to the hospital.


27 posted on 07/31/2018 3:37:56 PM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: mewzilla

Similar to the Air France jumbo jet in Toronto a few years go although that was a landing, not a takeoff. All survived that one as well (although it slid down the embankment.)

I know federal regulations are unpopular on FR, but they’ve done a lot to make planes safer. Now, if you survive the impact, you have a really good chance of surviving the crash. The fuel lines used to be under the floor, and the fires burned up into the cabin. Now they route them so that the flames burn off the top of the plane, given the passengers a few extra minutes to escape. And passenger planes built now for sale in the US have to have some system for suppressing fuel tank fires along the lines of the requirements for military planes - at least as long as the tank itself doesn’t rupture.


35 posted on 07/31/2018 4:27:56 PM PDT by PAR35
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