[FPSPACE] airliner tragedy

[Jens Kieffer-Olsen]

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Gottschalk [mailto:kgottschalk at uwc.ac.za] 
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 1:47 PM
 
> The sequence of near-simultaneous, automated messages from the
> doomed Air France plane reads painfully similar to the doomed 
> flight of Challenger.
> 
> Damage starts on a wing, on so large a scale as to destroy 
> steering.
> Then escalating structural failure results in catastrophic 
> breakup over a minute or so, with cabin decompression. All so
> fast that the pilot has no chance to press the Mayday button.
> 
> - Keith

 It's a shame that flying saucers are still not within sight.

 Like nuclear energy from fusion the easy-to-manoeuver saucer
 seems a perpetual, futuristic vision 50 years hence.

 THE project to lobby Bolden and NASA for, anyone?

--
Jens Kieffer-Olsen
Slagelse, Denmark