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Space Debris Narrowly Misses Airliner
An anonymous reader writes "An airliner jet traveling from Chile to New Zealand early today was in for an interesting ride. Flaming space debris — the remains of a Russian satellite — came hurtling back to Earth not far from a commercial jet on its way to Auckland, New Zealand. Here's further justification for the growing concern of the increasing amounts of space garbage orbiting our planet. From the article: 'The pilot of a Lan Chile Airbus A340 ... notified air traffic controllers at Auckland Oceanic Centre after seeing flaming space junk hurtling across the sky just five nautical miles in front of and behind his plane...'"
Chili? The small town outside of Rochester, New York? I didn't even know they had a airport. Things have changed since I left.
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Ah yes, the slashdot knee-jerk reaction. I was commenting on the flight from CHILE, but written CHILI and made a joke. Thank you for the lesson that there is a big world out there.
The joys of posting!
Just a dude. Stuck in IT.
Planes do not jettison their toilet waste in flight except in life endangering situations.