Re: Flight 800 Meteor report

[Martin Horejsi <martinh@isu.edu>]

Regarding the Flight 800 information, I believe it is important to note
that the probability of a meteor hitting the plane, however small, is still
a number greater than zero. From what I recall hearing about the original
testimony, the scientist concluded that the chance of Flight 800 being hit
by a meteor was so small it was not worth even treating it as a serious
cause.  This does make a certain amount of sense in that if one opens up
the cause of the tragedy to all the possible non-zero probability causes,
the list becomes infinitely long. However, given issues surrounding the
crash such as missile (meteor?) sightings, and the known fall of several
meteorites in that region of the continent in the past couple of years
(Peekskill et al.), I believe the non-zero probability of a meteor as the
cause should not be ruled out to quickly.

Sincerely,

Martin

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