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2014-11-08 Science & Technology

Virgin Galactic Crash: Worried Passengers Ask For Refunds

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Posted by Glavick Sninerong5546 2014-11-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 Oh, now you effete snots realize the stuff is dangerous. (That and they wasted a lot of money in the last election...)

Posted by ed in texas 2014-11-08 07:37|| 2014-11-08 07:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Somewhere Ruth an Bernie Madoff chuckle softly.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-11-08 07:39|| 2014-11-08 07:39|| Front Page Top

#3 If you're old enough, you can recall that commercial airlines usually suffered three or four fatal crashes a year. Among the customer services offered at airports were insurance vendors. Snapshot 1960 -

January 6 – National Airlines Flight 2511, a Douglas DC-6B bound from New York to Miami, crashes near Bolivia, North Carolina, when a bomb planted on board explodes in mid-air; all 34 people on board are killed.
January 18 – Capital Airlines Flight 20, a Vickers Viscount, en route from Washington National Airport to Norfolk International Airport crashes near Holdcroft, Virginia due to engine failure caused by icy conditions; all 50 on board are killed.
March 17 – Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 710, a Lockheed L-188 Super Electra en route from Chicago to Miami, Florida, breaks apart at 15,000 feet (4,600 m) and crashes near Tell City, Indiana, killing all 63 on board.
October 4 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Super Electra, crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport into Winthrop Bay, after multiple bird strikes; 62 of 72 aboard die.
October 29 – The Cal Poly football team plane crash: a chartered Curtiss C-46 crashes on takeoff at the Toledo Express Airport in Toledo, Ohio with the loss of twenty-two people including sixteen players on the California Polytechnic State University football team.
December 16 – The 1960 New York mid-air collision: United Airlines Flight 826, a Douglas DC-8, and TWA Flight 266, a Lockheed Super Constellation, collide in mid-air over Staten Island in New York; all 128 aboard the two planes and six people on the ground are killed. This is the first crash in which a flight recorder was used to provide details in a crash investigation. The accident was the deadliest U.S. commercial aviation disaster at the time.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-11-08 09:34|| 2014-11-08 09:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Worried Passengers Ask For Refunds

Finally wised up ?

Posted by Neville Brown5379 2014-11-08 11:19|| 2014-11-08 11:19|| Front Page Top

#5 1960 was a bad year for the Electra, turned into a hell of a plane tho.

Posted by Shipman 2014-11-08 12:29|| 2014-11-08 12:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Yep P2k, that they did. They also let anyone in to the gate area to meet & greet or say good bye.

Then you could look out big windows and wave as the planes pushed back. Saw my father leave on any number of business trips in the late '50s & early '60s.

Posted by AlanC 2014-11-08 12:29|| 2014-11-08 12:29|| Front Page Top

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