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Old 17th December 2008 | 11:41
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Koll
 
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If you drove your car into a wall at 30 knots the front bumper would be somewhere around the windscreen. It's hardly surprising that a "vehicle" the weight of an A340 would be damaged to this extent after impacting and mounting the blast fence. Plus the blast fence would have acted like a knife cutting into the fuse as it went over it. The fact they were at near take off power while all this was going on would have helped too.
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