Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Wlfgng on November 12, 2001, 11:59:00 AM
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They must be beginning to feel that airplanes are raining from the sky... sheesh!
Man I sure hope they find out that it was a malfunction and not terrorism or our economy will really be taking a dive.
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Not sure if this is the right forum for it, but heres my 2 cents. A lot of talk about an engine falling off is being thought as the cause of the crash. I think it was terrorist. I can think of 2 cases where commerical or large military aircraft have lost engines and remained airworthy. One happened in the gulf war. I think a KC135 was landing behind a 747 and the turbulence tore one of the engines off the KC135. It landed safely. Another case happened just a few years ago. A b52 lost an engine 'pod' and it landed safely. Of course there have also been incidents where they didnt land so safely. A large commercial jet had an engine actually fall off while it was still over the runway and it subsequently stalled and crashed. And I assume your familiar with the Souix City crash. It was a remarkable feat of flying.
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FDIron... ask the question in the O'Club and I'll tell you how much different the scenarios you describe are from what happened over Queens.
AKDejaVu