Thread: Hypothesis on USAir birdstrike
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Old January 18th 09, 11:06 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,alt.usenet.kooks,alt.disasters.aviation,rec.arts.poems
Bertie the Bunyip[_28_]
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Default Hypothesis on USAir birdstrike
(Steve Pope) wrote in news:gl08ml$cek$2
@blue.rahul.net:

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

Eeyore wrote in

spope wrote,

What are the odds that, instead of a double birstrike,
there was a single birdstrike taking out one engine, but due
to some design flaw or maintenance issue the other engine lost
power also?

NIL

nope, wrong again planespotter

We shoudn't have to wait long, they've got both engines
now and it should be deterministic whether each one
ingested a bird causing damage.


Mmm, true.

Bertie