I like these programs, but this one is well worth a look if your not already.........
What about that plane! it was riped open and still landed
What about the pilot!
Very luck that only one person died.
I will always keep my belt on next time i Fly
Ditch
i always do - people often get hurt in turbulance. Seat belt done up loosely stops it happening!
Last time I saw that one istr it they kind of skipped the real cause was pee leaking out the toilets over 20 odd years -- aluminium and magnesium alloys don't react well to pee.
Nah, the plane wasn't that old.
if you go on the NTSB website you can download the full text report. it was a poor bond in a lapped and rivetted seam that stress-cracked.
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Originally posted by MikeR
i always do - people often get hurt in turbulance. Seat belt done up loosely stops it happening!
in fact, when the comet airliners started to crash, all of the bodies seemed to have similar head and neck injuries. When they found out the cause of
the accidents (failure of the fuselage due to the stresses at the edges of square pressurised windows) they also found that as the plane rapidly
decompressed, everyone shot upwards and forwards.
I always keep my belt on - cant see any reason why not!
About 15 years ago i was on a landing into singapore when for a second the plane just dropped from the sky, then abruptly halted. we were all belted
cos of the landing. most of the plane screamed - i didnt - i was still taking in a breath to be able to do so 
still wasnt as scary as crossing the channel in mildly rougth weather in a hovercraft tho!
atb
steve
Lucky bugger, I never got to go in one fo the channel-crossing hovercraft, and now never will
Not terribly suitable technology for crossing to
France 'cos of our weather but brilliant things all the same
When my bro was on a flight from Fuji to the US, they hit some severe sudden turbulence - to the extent that most of cabin staff were stretchered of
the plane!
ATB
Simon