On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 04:19, Tony Peden wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 14:08, David Megginson wrote: > > Matthew Johnson writes: > > > > > Good point, something goes wrong on a commercial airliner very few, > > > if anyone ever gets out alive... > > > > Not at all. Things go wrong in airliners flown by scheduled carriers > > all the time, and usually no one suffers anything more than stress > > from a delay or rerouting. Injuries and fatalities are very rare in > > scheduled airline incidents or accidents. > > Yep, several failures/circumstances generally have to stack up in order > for something bad to happen. >
Anyone see "Anatomy of a Disaster" about flight 587? Not sure how technical it was, but the program seem to suggest that modern composite fibers aren't as strong as aluminum. Matt _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
