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Something you won't findin the mainstream media.
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>>>>http://www.boeing.com/commercial/news/2008/q2/080505b_nr.html
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>>>I hope they're better built than this one
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>>>http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=x1-f0GOFSEg
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>>Wasn't that breakup the result of a crash?
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>>I dunno, if you hit the ground hard enough to break a B747 in half, and everyone walks away (4 of 5 people on board "slightly injured") that seems like a pretty good testimonial to me.
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>On take off I think
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>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/25/belgium.aircrash.ap/index.html
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>still a good testimonial but perhaps overloaded ?

Could be, or maybe they lost power for some reason. Takeoffs are in some ways more hazardous than landings - at maximum weight, full of fuel (which thankfully didn't go up in this case).
Regards. Al

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