Meteor Shower Grounds Firefighting Aircraft!
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Wed Jun 27, 2012 10:10 am
One of my colleagues ran an internet search of the odds of an aircraft being struck by a meteor. He found a 1997 technical paper by William Cassidy that was initiated by the NTSB investigation of the crash of TWA Flight 800 (anybody remember that one?). Cassidy concluded that "The expected frequency of hull-penetrating strikes to an aircraft over the U.S. is once in 59,000 to 77,000 years." A person needs to know these things.
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Thu Jun 28, 2012 10:54 am
Yeah, but you got to be politically correct......
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