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Old 23rd Feb 2021, 08:30
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bsieker
 
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The airplane was not hit by high-energy fragments. Those would have gone straight through. A non-structural fairing was hit by a low-energy fragment. Not something you want, but not a catastrophic (arguably not even "major") failure from the point of view of the aircraft.
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