Originally Posted by
.Scott
It depends on what it hits and where it ends up.
At least there aren't any more SSTs to take out. In that case, it was a wear strip that had fallen from a Continental flight.
Well that was more down to Air France than anything falling off an aeroplane.
Everything in aviation is based on cost-benefit, would it be cheaper to re-engineer the aircraft or live with this pretty rare issue and try to mitigate it?.