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From: dsmith@hplabsb.HP.COM (David Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: shuttle landing sites
Message-ID: <4963@hplabsb.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Oct 88 17:42:22 GMT
References: <2137@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu> <5590@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <794@hadron.UUCP> <7225@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: dsmith@hplabsb.UUCP (David Smith)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA
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>> ... I have heard tales that Dullas is large enough (long enough in
>> the runway department) to serve as an emergency landing site.  However,
>> the location is wrong.
>
>And a commercial jetliner crashed in the hills just to the west of
>the airport a few years back.  Geography is a problem.   

If an object coming into Dulles on a Shuttle-like glidepath is in
danger of hitting the hills, then I don't want to fly there.  :-) /2
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			David Smith
			HP Labs
			dsmith@hplabs.hp.com