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Creative Speculation

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

10. It didn't crash into a reclaimed strip mine

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 01:29 PM

Mar 2015

Otherwise, a lot of the debris would have burrowed in.

The striking thing about the picture of the debris field in this rocky ravine was that I thought people would start playing "where's the plane?"

The impact site in PA was formerly a strip mine that had been covered in with loose fill.

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Germanwings crash has a debris field covering hundreds of yards. [View all] dixiegrrrrl Mar 2015 OP

That was my very first thought as well Dixiegrrrrl Mira Mar 2015 #1

just listening SoLeftIAmRight Mar 2015 #2

The debris fields would not be remotely comparable. Thor_MN Mar 2015 #3

I gently suggest you start digging a little Mira Mar 2015 #4

I gently suggest you are attempting to compare apples, hubcaps and shampoo. Thor_MN Mar 2015 #5

I gently suggest you search a little more zappaman Mar 2015 #6

LOL! Politicalboi Mar 2015 #13

"Digging?" William Seger Mar 2015 #7

Here is what I know for certain: Mira Mar 2015 #8

That's a pretty lame excuse for posting bullshit William Seger Mar 2015 #9

Very well said Politicalboi Mar 2015 #14

I found the Snopes article pretty comprehesive jonno99 Mar 2015 #11

I don't believe that Politicalboi Mar 2015 #15

"jump the shark" William Seger Mar 2015 #18

You don't by chance jonno99 Mar 2015 #20

It is said that oftentimes we don't know what we don't know - so I ask - jonno99 Mar 2015 #19

Dropping 27,000 feet in 8 minutes is a "gradual descent"? Ghost in the Machine Mar 2015 #21

Compared to impacting the ground at a 40 degree down angle? Thor_MN Mar 2015 #22

"Controlled descent rate of 3,000 feet per minute" LOL! Ghost in the Machine Mar 2015 #23

The descent was on autopilot. Thor_MN Mar 2015 #24

It didn't crash into a reclaimed strip mine jberryhill Mar 2015 #10

Here's a picture of the crash site in 1994 Politicalboi Mar 2015 #16

While I find your use of quotation marks around "planes" intriguing... jberryhill Mar 2015 #17

Shhhhhhhh!!!!! Politicalboi Mar 2015 #12