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intotherain wrote:Let's say that it's an aged highway, perhaps a few years, and a fully loaded DC-10 did an emergency landing on it. Would the plane crack the highway cement?

A DC-10 weighs almost 600,000 pounds.

But let's say it attempted the landing and crashed right on the county line. Which county would they bury the survivors in?

Gummiente wrote:

intotherain wrote:Let's say that it's an aged highway, perhaps a few years, and a fully loaded DC-10 did an emergency landing on it. Would the plane crack the highway cement?

A DC-10 weighs almost 600,000 pounds.

But let's say it attempted the landing and crashed right on the county line. Which county would they bury the survivors in?

All living people must be burried in Finland. International law when there are survivors.

Sev wrote:Are highways in America made of cement?

They're made of asphault up here in Canada.

Large highways in the US are made of concrete (cement/rocks/sand). Most get topped with asphalt, but concrete is provides the roadbed.

I don't think a highway made solely of asphalt would last very long. I think it would tend to crumble under the weight of traffic.

I used to work for a company that not only sold concrete and asphalt, but also constructed highways and runways all over the southwest. I'm pretty sure that every highway project we did (even the smaller ones) had a gravel base topped with concrete, that was then topped with asphalt.