Could a meteoroid strike be the reason behind the crash of Air France flight 447 ? The maths geeks at Discover crunched some numbers and it wrench out that it ’s not as farfetched as you might think .
According to their calculations , there ’s a 1 - in-20 chance that a meteor would hit one flying over the past 20 years . Which is n’t too gaga . But still , the odds of something so small falling from the sky and striking something else that ’s so small and moving so fast are close to nil , so while this is an interesting possibility , the chance are proficient that it was just a malfunction of the airspeed indicators . [ NY TimesandDiscover ]
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