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Anyone had this happen before on their flight ?

Thought not.

Very very strange.

and read the eyewitness report !!

Following on from the AIR FRANCE DISASTER ( unsolved completely ) and the MIRACLE SURVIVOR of the AIRBUS CRASH ( still totally mystifying ) and the Cockpit Fires on glass.......

Yes - I have no evidence at all for my BOWIE THEORY on these planes. But I think you will all agree something is happening out there. I know the economic downturn is a reason given for the current problems - but that has no basis in fact either.

The eyewitness reports that exist point towards strange goings on - and the engineers cant identify what happened. If it were simple failure of planes then it would not have these "add ons" of evidence.

These things dont happen all the time either. Go back through history and plane crashes are well documented. These are ALL unexplained.......

No mystery, BR. There are many reasons why holes appear in planes, and there is nothing new in this.

The Boeing 737 is my least favourite aircraft, and that is really saying something as I don't like any of them. A staggering one in 37 of every 737 ever manufactured has ended its life by crashing. I realise that many of you will think I have gone mad with that statistic, given the "flying is the safest form of transport" mantra we are constantly fed, so I have provided a link which proves this. Just read it and do the maths for yourselves, and you'll see that this seemingly ludicrous statement is true.

www.jacdec.de/statistics/types/Types.htm

I'm pretty sure that the economic meltdown has something to do with all travel.But I'm also convinced the 'meltdown' was a manufactured event to benefit certain people.

Afterall-money doesn't disappear , it simply changes hands and when property values drop there are a host of sharks ready to move in on a feeding frenzy. Plus the usual-workers must take less pay etc etc.

As for plane travel: Everyone knows Qantas was always not only one of the most profitable airlines but had the best and most enviable safety record.

That has been tarnished by the always suspect 'outsourcing' of work, these days Qantas has laid off many engineers and outsourced the work to Asian Countries.

That doesn't mean Asian engineers are any less qualified or dedicated to their work.

But their bosses can be something else. They are just profit driven and in some cases it's been discovered so-called engineers servicing Qantas flights (and British Airways on the interspersed routes) don't even have degrees.

And the inevitable happens-there have ben a string of incidents concerning their flights over the past 3 years that wiped out the record of some 80 years of excellence. Tyres blowing out, brake failures, holes blowing in the fuselage (especially the 737) but fortunately not yet, a crash.