Originally Posted by
Etud_lAvia
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How many times has a jet airline flight suffered a major structural failure not caused by an explosive weapon, which disabled it so suddenly that the flight crew never sent a subsequent radio message?
I haven't yet thought of an example. Anybody?
Such accidents are rare. Here are two:
B.O.A.C 911, a B-707
Alaska Airlines MD80
I think it is healthy, (in terms of how investigators work), to suspend conclusions in favour of an abiding curiosity until we know of the physical evidence, but it certainly seems to quack...