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To: exit82
The engines, like the rest of the plane, is probably in a million pieces.

Not if it ditched at that point and the absence of debris in that area is a pretty good indication that the pilot set it down instead of crashing it especially since he had atleast 300+ more miles of fuel onboard.

35 posted on 04/14/2014 8:54:05 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

I honestly don’t think the pilot “set it down”. The indication s are the plane, at best, was on some kind of autopilot. It would not have landed itself. Even if it did, the plane would have been hit by the waves and flipped or broken up on impact.

Sullenberger accomplished that feat in the Hudson River while in control of the plane, and in better circumstances. He still could have flipped the plane at any moment.His great skill prevented that. And that was in a relatively calm river.

The Indian Ocean is anything but calm. And 300 gallons of fuel is only speculation at this point, like everything else about this plane.

The people who know what happened are not speaking. We are no closer to knowing what happened than we were a month ago.


36 posted on 04/14/2014 9:00:28 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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