From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,f948976d12c7ee33
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-25 19:30:39 PST
Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail
From: aek@vib.usr.pu.ru (Alexander Kopilovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Boeing and Dreamliner
Date: 25 Jun 2003 19:30:38 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com/
Message-ID: <e2e5731a.0306251830.1ca0784b@posting.google.com>
References: <mailman.4.1056169754.352.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
 <zN9Ja.2184$N%6.569@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> <3EF5F3F3.6000806@attbi.com>
 <e2e5731a.0306231813.35f7dd7a@posting.google.com>
 <pNOJa.9904$Kg7.2691@nwrdny01.gnilink.net>
 <slrnbfgb3u.40l.randhol+abuse@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no>
 <BaYJa.40611$hI1.26447@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>
 <f9OdnbIRp--PSGWjXTWJjA@gbronline.com>
 <Qc6Ka.14618$Kg7.12799@nwrdny01.gnilink.net>
 <bdbtb3$regf8$2@ID-77047.news.dfncis.de> <3EFA10CB.5070903@attbi.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.152.82.239
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1056594639 23072 127.0.0.1 (26 Jun 2003 02:30:39
 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Jun 2003 02:30:39 GMT
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39753
Date: 2003-06-26T02:30:39+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Robert I. Eachus wrote

> >> > 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.

Yes, I saw a funeral about 1960, in Kharkov, USSR (now Ukraine).
I was a child, but I still remember it well. It was long procession on our
Pushkinskaja street, many coffins, military orchestra... My father explained
me that a rocket exploded during the launch, and all people on the site were
killed, even command staff, including a general (command bunker was destroyed
by the debris and burned by rocket's fuel).



Alexander Kopilovitch                      aek@vib.usr.pu.ru
Saint-Petersburg
Russia