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Irish_Dem

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32. They were lucky the plane stayed intact.

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #29)

Sat Feb 6, 2021, 12:33 AM

Feb 2021

They were lucky all the way around.

I grew up as an USAF brat, flew on airplanes from an early age. Listening to all the
military fliers talk, and knowing about planes going down, my understanding of air flight
danger was quite realistic.

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