09-05-2003 21:42									#31
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If you think I have ego problems now, you should of seen my picture threads..

	09-05-2003 21:48									#32
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Can this thread not be Fezzed, please?

	09-05-2003 22:08									#33
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quote: Originally posted by Fez You were the one who brought my name up. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't of posted in this thread.

But you did, and if you don't chill, you know the drill.

	09-05-2003 23:11									#34
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Yikes.

While on one hand it seems completely impossible for everyone to have fallen out, it also seems like a lot of effort to kill people in a country prone to less elaborate methods.

I know that overcrowding on vehicles of all sorts is pretty common over there; anyone know what the capacity of that plane should be for passengers? I doubt it had any seating at all...

	09-05-2003 23:44									#35
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quote: A number of cargo planes have been designed to open at the rear in flight to drop cargo or paratroops, and crewchiefs, jumpmasters, etc. work back there.

My first thoughts as well.

	10-05-2003 00:05									#36
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quote: Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat A number of cargo planes have been designed to open at the rear in flight to drop cargo or paratroops, and crewchiefs, jumpmasters, etc. work back there.

I would guess the area wouldn't be pressurized when they're actually working back there though. If they area was pressurized and a bunch of people were sitting on the floor, it isn't hard to imagine them all being sucked out if the cargo door suddenly fell off.

	10-05-2003 00:13									#37
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Sava, would you please leave Fez the hell alone?

	10-05-2003 00:15									#38
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Unless; they converted the cargo plain into a passenger jet by placing seats on a stage and then just setting the whole gear in there? Then the whole stage would of slid out all at once...

	10-05-2003 00:19									#39
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C'mon people...It's the DRoC...no one dies 'accidently'

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quote: Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat But you did, and if you don't chill, you know the drill.

Nice poem.
Could you do it as haiku?

	10-05-2003 00:54									#41
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This was a passanger flight: the Congolese have to make due with wahtever planes are around, specially since travel by road is almost impossibler, and trvale by river also dangerous.

I am pretty sure, given the reports, that it was an accident, and not "an accident".

	10-05-2003 01:04									#42
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You must chill right now
Or else banning commences
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	10-05-2003 01:15									#43
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It is hard to imagine that none of the passagers had seat belts on. If they didn't or non was available, then this contributed as much as to what happen as did failures in the doors and ramps.

	10-05-2003 01:20									#44
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You can get sucked out of an airplane. That plane was compressed, and when the rear door opened, it decompressed, which led to the air inside rushing out, which sucks everything else out. Now the question is: did the pilots open the door on purpose, on accident, or did it fall off.

planes which drop cargo out of the back are either at low altitudes or are no compressed: above 10,000 everyone in an uncompressed airplane has to wear a mask with oxygen.

	10-05-2003 01:43									#45
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They were flying at 33,000 feet at the time. There were 9 survivors who told of baggage flying about. The people who were sucked out were located at the rear of the plane and did not have seats.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,86441,00.html

	10-05-2003 01:46									#46
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The Congolese Government said they were going to run an investigation.. I wonder what that turns up. Will they ask international help?

quote: did the pilots open the door on purpose, on accident, or did it fall off.

I think from what the Congolese Communication minister was saying on TV, is that it fell off.

	10-05-2003 02:09									#47
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It's rainin' men, Halleluja, It's rainin' men, Amen!

It happened in Africa. Anything can happen there. A friend of mine was flying domestic in Kenya. The aircraft was an old DC3 taking off from a short dirt airstrip. When he entered the aircraft he wondered why they had staps in the ceiling in the aisle. He soon found out that they were there for the standing third class passengers who hanged on during the very steep take-off on the short airstrip.

	10-05-2003 11:48									#48
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all I can say is

	10-05-2003 13:18									#49
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Have they run out of ammunition in that senseless fighting over there that they've resorted to using humans as missles, now?

	10-05-2003 17:23									#50
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I bet getting hit by a falling person would hurt.

	10-05-2003 17:36									#51
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Ouchies...