Re: And what about civilian Shuttle casualties?
- From: "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" <mooregr_deleteth1s@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 23:50:37 GMT
"ed kyle" <edkyle99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> James wrote:
> > Something I don't think I heard hardly a peep about during the last
> SS
> > mission, is how close civilians came to being taken out by flaming
> debris.
> > Noone on the ground agreed to take any "calculated risks". I guess
> this
> > doesn't matter in comparison to all the bucks being made by various
> parties.
>
> Has the general public agreed to be overflown
> many many thousands of times more often by large
> passenger aircraft? A 747, for example, weighs
> nearly six times as much as a shuttle orbiter.
> Unlike space shuttle, 747s *have* killed people
> on the ground, on more than one occasion.
Heck a recent jet flight dropped its thrust reverser while in flight.
I loved the news report: "No one on-board was injured." Um... yeah.. what
about people on the ground? Fortunately none in this case, but it's not
unheard of.
>
> - Ed Kyle
>
.
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