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Re: How big is to big?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:22:54 GMT
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> From: "Erin Windross" <e-windross@home.com>
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> How big is to big? Sure I realize that many people need to get from point a to
> point b, but what happens when so many of them are cramped into one airplane?
> Picture yourself on the A3XX, flying at a safe altitude, all of a sudden a
> bomb goes off in the lugage compartment, and this two deck airliner comes
> crashing to the ground bringing more than 700 people to their deaths. It would
> probably be the worst disaster in history!
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> Now that plane, ship, train, and auto makers keep making things larger with
> more capcity, there is more room for something to go wrong. Would you feel
> safe on a two deck airplane that carries the most passengers in the world? I
> wouldn't...
What? What kind of logic is that? Suppose someone sets off a bomb in a large
office tower. Do you feel safe going to work?
Boeing has plans to build a double-decker as well, should Airbus decide to
go through with theirs. If enough airline companies want them, Boeing and
Airbus will build them, and the airports will accomodate that because it
means more business and more money for everyone.
~Mark
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| (exert taken from CNN article) "(CNN) -- The challenge for the travel industry in the next century is to accommodate an anticipated boom in tourism and commuting -- and to do so in style. Specialists say to expect bigger planes, larger ships, faster (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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