> "Mike P" privacy.net> wrote in message
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>> "martin" etiqa.co.uk> wrote in message
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>>> Mike P wrote:
>>>

>>>> That's the main problem. When an airliner crashes, there rarely is
>>>> time. I can't think of any crash where having a parachute would have
>>>> made much, if any difference to the amount of fatalities. They don't
>>>> just glide down from 35,000ft and hit the water or ground.

>>>
>>> I can think of exactly one.

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>> I can think of the Sioux City crash, but no others..

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> That wasn't a glide, the plane was under power the whole way down. Dammit,
> that't the only thing they had to control it.