An earlier post light-heartedly (I think) speculated on how the UK media would have covered the Lan Chile event near NZ. I thought of that when I heard a radio station here promoting a program that was going to discuss the event. The radio station suggested in its promo that the "the space debris passed so close they drowned out the sound of the aircraft engines as they (the space debris) passed" or words very similar to those.
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