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Old 19th November 2003 | 04:32
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DamienB
 
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What would have happend if they had made Le Bourget with only 2-3 engines, possibly no brakes on one side, a massive fire, with the systems damage that it was causing....I hate to think.
Sioux City showed that even the most violent crash on a runway can give you survivors.

Stalling and dropping out of the sky into a hotel, well, we know how many survivors that resulted in.

Can't remember which of the various reports I read it in contained it, but it mentioned that only 20-30 seconds of further controlled flight would have got them on the ground at Le Bourget, and any result of that would have been better than what they got.
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