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Old 4th Apr 2011, 20:02
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i would epect the tires to only lose their air when pressure was great enough to break the rubber seal with the rims, but not explode from the pressure.

I haven't read the BEA report but from what we've seen so far we can determne that:
- it was a relatively low speed impact (somewhere less than supersonic) with the ocean surface as the airframe wasn't broken into tiny bits
- if all sunken major airframe parts are recovered in that small area then those airframe parts were likely connected at impact rather than seperating at altitude,
- the fuselage was opened at some point (upon impact I expect) because the previously recovered galley came from within the cabin,
- we don't know how long it took sea creatures to consume those lost in the Titanic because searchers got there so many years later.

Glad to see they found it
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