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Old 31st Aug 2008, 08:40
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I don't think Philthy has to offer an alternative explanation as his criticism raises sufficient reasonable doubt...

Besides which in the post before his I did offer an alternative suggestion that the bottle rupture did not cause the fuselage to split.

Rather the fuselage split first and the cargo, including the ULD banged into aforementioned bottle cracking off the valve head which went ballistic upwards and the bottle itself got shunted sideways through the hole.

Ockham's Razor seems to favour that explanation more than a bottle going upwards and then returning downwards again before turning through 90- degrees to exit the hole.
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