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Someone asked:

>> > Were lives at stake in Ariane?

Several hundred people who thought their lives were not at stake 
discovered otherwise.  No one had looked for a worst case scenario until 
it happened.  The Ariane 501 disintegrating at 4000 meters altitude 
(about 2 1/2 miles) was never imagined.  Fortunately most of the larger 
chunks of debris were carried upward before falling to the ground so 
there were no serious injuries.  But I would not have liked to have been 
one of the many technicians watching the launch from a couple of 
kilometers distant suddenly realizing that the Ariane 501 wreckage was 
planning to land where I was standing.