On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:25:26 +0100, Ian Woollard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>However, if the estimate is at all accurate it implies that /the space 
>shuttle/ statistically kills or injures a bystander on the ground about 
>once per thousand flights. Seems an uncomfortably large number.

A question: how do you get from a 24% chance of injury in a reentry
accident to one casualty per thousand flights?  I'm not challenging
you; I just don't follow you.

And a comment: if the 1 in a 1000 figure is accurate, Shuttle is 33
times too hazardous to fly under FAA rules.  No surprise there; it
can't land in the U.S. under FAA rules, either.

-R

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