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Old August 27th 06, 07:34 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Greg Farris
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Default Crashing on takeoff... how odd

In article
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says...


In article ,
wrote:


Only a fools and idiots speculate on the cause of an airplane crash
before the facts are known.


Your self-assured tone notwithstanding, I question the veracity, as well
as the usefulness of this statement.

Idiots probably spend very little of their time speculating on the causes
of air crashes, while those who do so all day every day are professional
air accident investigators, who did not get their jobs by being fools.

Speculation is a normal and necessary activity in such situations, in no
way degrading to the memory of the victims, and indispensable to our
undersatnding of the accident process.

Wild or lurid scenari, accusation, diffamation and psychotic, paranoid
conspiracy theories do not qualify, as any reasoning person readily
understands.

GF