Richard de Crespigny

Three pieces hit the aircraft in our case.

It created shrapnel,

About 400 impacts on the aeroplane from all the shrapnel, 200 against the fuselage.

There were holes inside the wing, under the wing, on top of the wing.

Fuel's gushing out.

Hydraulics is coming out.

fuel's pouring out through the holes inside the wing and above and below the wing.

So these pieces were going through aluminium this thick, 15 mils thick, through a fuel tank five feet deep in fuel, through another aluminium panel, 15 mils thick.

When Airbus designed the aircraft to take a rotor burst, which is what we've got,

They assume that piece of the disk, which you can never contain, has infinite energy.

I'm sorry, if this is scaring you, but now you won't be scared because they say, that's okay.

We just assume we can't stop it, but we offset the engine so the one exploding engine doesn't take out the other one.

And we designed the aircraft so no matter what happens with those pieces of shrapnel, we've got backup systems, right?

So in our case, those three pieces that hit the aircraft took out 650 wires, knocked out half of our networks.

Out of 22 systems, 21 were affected.

And

When you break down in your car driving home, you'll get out and fix it, won't you?

Your electronic car.

No, you can't.

You can't.