Close, but no cigar.
There is a bullet made of shot in a little bag, that won't penetrate the
skin of the A/C. It was developed for close range shooting with reduced
danger of ricochet.
Also, the skin should stand a bullet hole without catastrophic failure,
otherwise it would couldn't survive all those rivet holes for the rivets
that hold the thing together in the first place.
John
Mechanical Engineer
At 12:46 AM 9/13/01 +0100, Jim Webster wrote:
>Joe Garrett wrote:
>
>>If only one person on each of those airplanes had been armed, this would
>>never have happened. Those people could have been air marshals or private
>>citizens. It wouldn't matter.
>
>
>People do not use guns in aeroplanes for the specific reason that the
>first shot fired invariably results in explosive decompression when the
>bullet passes thru the hijacker and then the side of the aeroplane. Result
>one dead hijacker and seconds later catasrophic failure of the aeroplane
>structure and the crew/passengers are in free-fall.
>
>They have considered reduced charge ammunition but the concensus of
>opinion is that it would not put anyone down with the first shot and if
>the firer were close enough to the side of the aeroplane then the end
>result would still be the catastophic decompression.
>
>TTFN
>Jim
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