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2003-05-30 East/Subsaharan Africa

U.S. official confirms Angolan jet missing

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Posted by Steve 2003-05-30 09:51 am|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 That's what you get for leaving your keys in the ignition in a high-crime neighborhood.

Posted by Mike 2003-05-30 10:20:17|| 2003-05-30 10:20:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Does anyone think they left the plane on the runway with full tanks? Does anyone think the hijacker/repo man brought enough fuel? If he didn't have a runway in mind when he took off the plane he was scrambling to find one within an hour or two of takeoff.

Posted by Yank 2003-05-30 11:53:13|| 2003-05-30 11:53:13|| Front Page Top

#3 The 727 is a smaller Boeing, the one with the two engine nacelles at the tail and the rear drop-down stairs. Maybe it was D.B. Cooper, huh?

Posted by mojo 2003-05-30 11:53:52|| 2003-05-30 11:53:52|| Front Page Top

#4 YANK - Aircraft are almost always parked with full fuel tanks. 1, it limits corrosion. 2, a full tank of fuel is much less flammable than a tank partially full of fuel and partially full of fuel vapor - vapor is much more flammable. The only time you empty the tanks completely is to purge them for long-term storage. If that had been the case here, there wouldn't have been any way to start the aircraft regardless of fuel state. Take it from an Aero Engineer with 20 years flight test experience.

Posted by Dan 2003-05-30 15:36:45|| 2003-05-30 15:36:45|| Front Page Top

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