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Re: How big is to big?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:14:17 GMT
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ssgore@superonline.NOMORESPAMcom
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Erin Windross wrote:
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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!
Maybe the worst "aircraft disaster", since the biggest I know had a 500+
death total (crashing 747s on the ground).
> 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...
Why? I can't see anything that decreases the safety when compared the
dying with 100 other people and dying with 600 other people..:-)
Selçuk
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