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Ding! Finally, the right answer. Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming. At 04:23 PM 4/20/96 PDT, Charles T. Urbanski wrote: >------- >I am more concerned about a tank or set of doubles having a valve shear >off, a manifold break, or a handle get smacked so it opens and lets the >tank go thru a wild ride in the belly of the airplane doing all sorts of >damage. > >I witnessed an incident onboard a Navy ship where a set of Navy 90's fell >over hitting the manifold on a toolbox. They went thru the shop and broke >a desk, knocked over a file cabinet, broke one person's leg in two places, >and literally beat the shit out of three other people. ALL IN 10 >SECONDS. These tanks had 3000 PSI in them. Tanks DO NOT explode or fly >around like a missile and go a mile like the old story tellers say! They >DO take a wild ride spinning and hitting things nastily. > >Its not the expolsion (very unlikely) or a burst disk blowout (controlled >release) that I fear, its the other things in the cargo bay and the >possibility or things moving around in bad weather or sudden turbulance >that might break a valve or manifold that scares me. > > > >Regards and safe diving, >Tim Urbanski > >PS - If anyone is planning to ship full tanks or an airplane could you >please let me know by private e-m1il. I travel 75% of the time for my job >and I do not want to be on the same plane. That goes for air freight >too. I would also like to buy lots of life insurance on the person >shipping the tanks if they go on the same plane. I think its a good bet. >------- > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. >Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'. >
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