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To: wily who wrote (34542)	11/14/1999 10:53:00 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi wily; I'm more scared to fly nowadays, cause I know too many Boeing engineers, and they are the best in the airplane business, I think. The paper today had a note that 767s only have fatal flights at a rate of 1 for every 2 million take offs. I can accept those odds. But the MD-11 has an uncontrolled interaction with the ground at about a 10 times greater rate. The article was regarding the Egyptian disaster in the Atlantic off of New York recently. The papers up here go into great technical detail about the problems whenever a Boeing (or now MD-xx) augers in. (As far as the English language goes, the verb "to auger" as applied to aircraft hole digging, is not original with me. I first heard the term from an ex-Boeing engineer, and have since spotted it in the book You Want to Build and Fly a What? by Dick Starks, about his WW-1 biplane replica. Notice the difference in spelling vis a vis "to augur" or foretell the future. P.S. I'm the last person anyone should listen to for advice on the English language.) Anyway, I am obviously drifting. Many is the thing I've tried to do but without success. Removing sarcasm from my writing is undoubtedly one of them. Time for me to go to bed. -- Carl