A Continental Airlines airplane crashed in Denver, CO on Saturday.
Before it took off, the passengers were told there had been problems
with the engine, but it was ere fixed. One of the engines failed and
ignited a large fire. Fortunately, all of the passengers and crew
escaped, although two are in serious condition, and they had to rush
out of the airplane to avoid the fire.
This illustrates the fact that most commercial aviation crash
fatalities are caused by fire, not by the crash itself. In most
crashes, even when the aircraft is destroyed on impact, the
passengers survive but they then face enormous danger from burning fuel.
This hazard would be eliminated by cold fusion (or the Mills effect,
I assume). In the event of an accident there would still be danger
from boiling hot liquids and steam, but this is far smaller than the
danger from burning fuel.
Many automobile accident fatalities are also caused by burning fuel.
The 9/11 attackers could not have brought down the Twin Towers with
cold-fusion powered aircraft.
- Jed
