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Old 5th Aug 2012, 03:08
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Originally Posted by Lyman
After 36 close calls, finally a strike out...Not unexpected. As time went on, the standard defense of ownership of the problem becam ad nominee, repeated ad absurdum.
I talked to a gent from the NTSB a week ago. He indicated that there were actually over 50 cases of Airbus UAS that they were able to document. With numbers like that, the odds of one landing "jelly side down" are pretty high.
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