Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site dmcnh.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!ittatc!sii!dmcnh!mark From: mark@dmcnh.UUCP (Mark Roddy) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: "A Design Proposal That Would Make Passenger Planes Safe" Message-ID: <218@dmcnh.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Jan-86 10:50:15 EST Article-I.D.: dmcnh.218 Posted: Tue Jan 14 10:50:15 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jan-86 03:33:50 EST References: <196@hropus.UUCP> <118@r2d2.UUCP> <27@hplabsc.UUCP> <452@ssc-vax.UUCP> Organization: Datamedia Corp, Nashua, NH Lines: 27 () I don't know what test results have or have not proved, but I have noticed that a lot of the flight crew seem to survive crashes where everybody else is turned into people jelly. (Except the folks up front who could qualify for that joke about a bug and a windshield,) And guess what kind of seats the lucky stewards and stewardesses ride in? Yep, on almost all the newer airplanes, the flight crew gets rear facing seats with X belts! What joke? (hit your n key to avoid joke) Q. What is the last thing the bug saw as it hit the windshield? A. It's asshole.