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1 posted on 05/05/2007 2:45:10 AM PDT by malamute
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To: malamute

Prayers for those on board and their families. Damn.


2 posted on 05/05/2007 2:51:43 AM PDT by Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit (Everyone wants a simple answer; but sometimes there isn't a simple answer)
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To: malamute

Statistically speaking, airplane travel is far safer than automobile travel. Over 50,000 Americans die every year on the nation’s roads and highways and many times that many are involved in accidents. Yet the rare plane crash continues to draw the big headlines.


3 posted on 05/05/2007 2:54:38 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 77 days away from outliving Curt Hennig (whoever he is))
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4 posted on 05/05/2007 2:54:50 AM PDT by csvset
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To: malamute
NATIONALITIES OF MISSING
34 Cameroon
15 India
9 Kenya (crew)
7 South Africa
6 China
6 Ivory Coast
6 Nigeria
5 Britain
3 Niger
2 Central African Republic
2 Democratic Republic of Congo
1 Ghana; Sweden; Togo; Mali; Switzerland; Comoros; Mauritius; Senegal; Congo; Egypt; Tanzania; US; Burkina Faso
6 unidentified
Source: Kenya Airways

6 posted on 05/05/2007 4:06:42 AM PDT by csvset
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To: malamute

If its like most everything else done in Africa the plane probably hadnt had the oil changed in the last million miles.


7 posted on 05/05/2007 4:12:24 AM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I will forgive Jane Fonda, when the Jews forgive Hitler.)
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To: malamute
Have you ever seen these guys land?
12 posted on 05/05/2007 4:55:10 AM PDT by jmq (Islam=Religion of Peace)
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I can almost imagine what their aircraft maintenace is like.


24 posted on 05/05/2007 8:17:48 AM PDT by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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