Re: Scientists against...Swift Boats....

From: Scott M. Kozel (kozelsm_at_attbi.com)
Date: 11/07/04 

Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 10:16:27 -0500

"Keith Willshaw" <keithspam@kwillshaw.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> "WaltBJ" <waltbj01@mindspring.com> wrote
>
> > I mentioned the 500 knots - you all should know that in the US one
> > flies no more than 250 below 10,000 feet unless the aircraft itself
> > requires a higher airspeed.
>
> Or is out of control.

In the Turkish Airlines DC-10 crash near Paris in 1974, the plane
impacted the ground at 500 mph and at an angle of descent of 2 degrees,
a near level attitude. At altitude the dive had been as steep as 17
degrees, but the pilots were in the process of pulling out when they ran
out of altitude.
.....

On 3 March 1974, Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashed in France, killing
all 346 passengers aboard.

The flight came down just minutes after take-off on the Paris-London
leg. A defective latch on the cargo door caused it to open in flight,
resulting in an explosive decompression. The decompression caused the
cabin floor near the door to fail, sucking six passengers out of the
plane and severing the control cables leading to the tail surfaces. With
elevator control lost, the plane dived into the ground at 430 knots.

The plane left a trail over a kilometer long through the forest, and few
pieces larger than a meter were left. All 346 people aboard were killed
in the accident, a large number of these were English rugby fans who had
transferred to the plane after their own flight had been canceled.

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