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That's the first thought that springs to mind, but not necessarily the case. Aircraft from that era were quite solid and they did not have a pressurized hull.
by exDM69 12y ago
That's the first thought that springs to mind, but not necessarily the case.
Aircraft from that era were quite solid and they did not have a pressurized hull. The Lockheed Electra and other similar aircraft from the same era flew in wartime operations and regularly came back full of holes.
A single window broken cover should not bring an otherwise sound 1930s era aircraft down.
- snowballsteve 12y agoExactly correct. There is no way a missing window would bring down the plane, especially the back window, unless by some freak accident the patch damaged a control surface on the tail by breaking free. One can think of an almost limitless list of more likely hypotheses.
- davvolun 12y agoTo be completely fair, a list such as insulating foam peeling off and striking the wing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia#Final_mission_and_destruction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia#Final_mi...) or a random bird striking a plane and causing a failure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_strike#Incidents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_strike#Incidents)? I'm not saying it happened, or even that it's likely, I'm saying stranger things have happened.