Thank you so much. If I happen to come across any naked bodies and
airplane parts together now I'll know what happened. Ruth
At 4:34 AM -0500 2/18/08, [log in to unmask] wrote:
Contrary to what I have always heard, terminal velocity of the human body
is 120 mph only in the case of a carefully held spread eagle position, e.
g. by a skydiver. Terminal velocity of an uncontrolled descent can reach
600 mph, which is more than enough to shred clothing. Thus the presence
of naked bodies in a wreckage field indicates a high altitude break up,
with airplane parts and victims falling separately rather than a crash with
fuselage intact.
This from George Bibel's new "The Forensics of Airplane Crashes"
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Ruth Barton
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