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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pan Am 103 did not break up immediately.  After the bomb blew a less than 2 foot hole in the fuselage, the nose cone/cockpit peeled away.  Intact.  When it fully disengaged, it struck engine number 3 and fell.  It crashed into the ground largely intact.

The remainder of the airframe separated into 3 pieces.  3.  Not a bazillion.  3.  All of which crashed in almost the same location.

Many of the people on board pan am 103 lived until it hit the ground.

Do you remember the Hawaiian Air incident.  A full third of the airframe skin peeled off and away and the aircraft landed safely.

TWA 800?  A massive explosion, yet large parts of the airframe remained intact until it hit the water.[/quote]

I didn't say anything about a bazillion pieces. Pan Am 103 did break into thousands of pieces, even though there were a few very large chunks. The data I looked at says the front end of the aircraft broke away within 3 seconds of the explosion. It also says this "At this time a loud sound was recorded on the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) at 19:02:50. Five radar echoes fanning out appeared, instead of one.[12][13] Comparison of the cockpit voice recorder to the radar returns showed that, eight seconds after the explosion, the wreckage had a 1-nautical-mile (1.9 km) spread."

Go watch any of the animations recreating what happened on that flight.  You will see first the who; being blown open in the lower port side cargo area.  Then the cladding of the fuselage peels of.  Then parts of the aluminum tube and large segments of aluminum skin.  Then the cockpit tears away.  Most of these thousand of pieces were exterior portions.  You will see that the fuselage remains largely intact with the cabin, wings and tail portion all as an integral unit.  It is after the cockpit is torn off and the airframe begins a starboard roll that the cabin , wings and tail section break away from each other.

As for the 3 to 8 seconds not being immediate?  That's really a pretty long time.  In terms of distance, 3 seconds is roughly 1/2 a mile and 8 seconds is 1.25 miles.  Just count, it is longer than you think.

The good news is that people would lose consciousness very quick once the cabin opened up.  So while they may have been alive while plummeting to earth, they were not aware of what was occurring.

I don't understand why 3 seconds or 8 seconds would not be considered immediate. [/quote][/quote]

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