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From: Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Boeing and Dreamliner
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:19:37 -0700
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"Robert I. Eachus" wrote:

> 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.

We had just this scenario in China when launching an Intelsat VII
using a Chines Long March Rocket.    Although Intelsat VII is
programmed in Ada, Long March (as far as I am able to determine)
was not.

I knew some of the people present at the launch and they were close
enough to be in danger.  As it is, quite a few villagers nearby were
killed and maimed.

Richard Riehle