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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings
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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (4185)11/13/2001 3:05:54 PM
From: jcky  Read Replies (1) of 14610
 
Hi Jorj,

It's still too early in the investigation to pin the cause of the accident on a flock of birds. We may still find out that there was a catastrophic mechanical failure, or even, that it was, indeed, an act of terrorism (nothing to support this so far).

A flock of birds sucked into both jet engines could not only cause tremendous damage to the engine's turbine (resulting in engine fragments sheared off and hurled as projectiles) but it can also cause aerodynamic instability (imagine an unbalanced load of laundry in the spinning cycle as it wobbles due the uneven distribution of weight) causing a tremendous amount of vibrations on the airplane. Now, is this enough to cause the plane to disintegrate in mid-air? I really don't know.

Or maybe the airplane broke apart on its near vertical decline after the engines failed. No jumbo jet was ever designed to withstand a nose dive at over 500 miles per hour.
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