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  • Can't rule out the meteor theory yet!
      • crysys (no login)
      Posted Jun 4, 2009 11:15 PM

      At least not according to a blog at discovermagazine.com This guy actually turned a extreme outside chance into the perfect armchair explanation, wildly misleading question for a title and all, about there being a bright flash of light spotted in the vicinity at the same time. How anyone spots a meteor in a lightning storm is beyond me.

      Eventually the story comes down to someone claiming that 1 in 10 plane crashes could be a result of meteors and another person trying to crunch the numbers and failing to come to any reasonable conclusions. It ends on this note, "One thing, though, is clear: if we keep flying big planes at high altitude, eventually one will get hit by a meteor."

      CLAP, CLAP, CLAP.

      Excellent conclusion there Nostradumass. You cracked the case, eventually a meteor has to hit a plane with sufficient time for basic rules of chance to make the improbable but possible come to be.

      http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/06/04/did-a-meteor-bring-down-air-france-447/
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