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Stormin' Norman (norman@schwarzkopf.in.memorium) 2018/11/12 11:04

On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 17:47:10 +0000, Laurie <laurie@home.invalid>
wrote:

>On 11/11/2018 14:39, Stormin' Norman wrote:
>> Wow!  That didn't end well for the aircraft!  I wonder how many
>> injuries and deaths there were?
>>
>236 passengers and 9 crew on board.
>2 serious and 41 minor injuries.
>1 of the passengers who had apparently sustained only minor injuries
>died five days later of unsuspected internal injuries.
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Airways_Flight_226A
>
>Laurie

Thanks Laurie, from your information it appears the 757 airframe
absorbed most of the kinetic energy from the crash instead of
transferring it to the passengers and crew, as it should be, glad to
know that.

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"How hard can that be, saying that Nazis are bad?"

-Barack Obama, September 2018

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