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Po_d Mainiac

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8. My bet. They hit super cooled water vapor

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Fri Jul 6, 2012, 06:42 AM

Jul 2012

Froze off all the pitot tubes.

The planes' computer then went into idiot mode.

That bird was a fly-by-wire hollow tube that without accurate A/S reading for thrust control, doomed.

Robots are great, till the times they fuck up.

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I agree high density Jul 2012 #4

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This. n/t Psephos Jul 2012 #5

I have always feared it would come to this... IthinkThereforeIAM Jul 2012 #6

the correct title should be tru Jul 2012 #7

My bet. They hit super cooled water vapor Po_d Mainiac Jul 2012 #8

Popular Mechanics tru Jul 2012 #9