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To: 2banana

Nothing short of a complete electrical failure would explain it.
Is that even possible?

12 posted on 07/30/2015 7:49:00 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)

To: smokingfrog

And still fly for another 6 hours?

13 posted on 07/30/2015 7:49:45 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)

To: smokingfrog

It’s not “impossible”, but should be no more likely than literally “Once in a billion hours of flight”.

16 posted on 07/30/2015 7:54:20 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)

To: smokingfrog

Nothing short of a complete electrical failure would explain it.

Someone still needs to operate the electronics , communications and avionics packages. Crew incapacitation is certainly a possibility.

18 posted on 07/30/2015 8:02:54 AM PDT by pfflier

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