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Drunk Aerobatics Followup

2007 Reader Submission
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With regards to the "Drunk Aerobatics" story, I forwarded it to my brother since he's a pilot. What he had to say was, I thought, rather interesting and deserving of inclusion for Darwins (and all DA readers) eyes:

Of course I had to read the NTSB report. It was an in flight breakup. The last radar data showed them at 5000 feet. The debris was scattered over an area 2500' long by 1000' wide. Let's see. Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie almost surely scattered over a wider area. Ditto for the space shuttle (Columbia certainly, not sure about Challenger). Beyond that, it's hard to think of too many others. If I tried to do that, I wouldn't know how to accomplish it short of exploding a bomb on board. So whatever they did, they get big points for their engineering talent.

I can see overstressing the plane doing stupid acro and shedding pieces for a while before you reach the site of the crash. Maybe you could lose an aileron and keep flying. But how do you do that and then shoot pieces 1000' to the side???? That's what I don't get. Unless they changed direction as they were shedding pieces. Either they were too drunk to know any better, or those were two really, really, really frightened guys.

Submitted on 04/25/2007

Submitted by: Bruce
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Chip said:
Definitely Keep: For Darwin's Eyes
This one has already been accepted but we appreciate that you sent in additional information Bruce.

Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: For Darwin's Eyes

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