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Originally Posted by varmint
is that a crater? looks at least 15 foot deep. didn't think a passenger plane had enough mass to cause that. maybe it's a natural ditch.
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Take 80 tons up to 525 mph and run it into the ground and see what kinda hole it makes.
Some of them Tupolevs can have up to a 115 ton weight at take off.
They've been around since the 1960's, if they were inherently unsafe we'd have known about it long ago.
They may be wore out, there may be planes out there that are safer, but the basic design of these planes is not flawed.