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Topic: TWA 800 meteor hit calculation ??
Replies: 18   Last Post: Oct 4, 1996 4:57 PM

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Steve Gregorich

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Registered: 12/12/04
Re: TWA 800 meteor hit calculation ??
Posted: Oct 2, 1996 4:48 PM
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>Oh yes, who says no plane has been hit before? - most hits would NOT
>be so fatal. Much of the plane is wing, for support, and not critical
>(I think).

For the most part, the fuel tanks are in the wings.

>This plane was flying with an EMPTY fuel tank,

I haven't followed this whole story closely, but it
seems strange to me that a 747 would take off for
a trans-Atlantic flight with an EMPTY fuel tank.
Maybe I'm out of it, but that seems illegal.

>Rich Ulrich, biostatistician wpilib+@pitt.edu
>Western Psychiatric Inst. and Clinic Univ. of Pittsburgh


Steve Gregorich

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