Posted on 10/03/2017 8:39:36 AM PDT by DOC44
Possible...but seems very sophisticated. On the other hand it appears a great deal of planning went into this operation.
Security guards chasing another security guard—nothing to see here—move along, citizen.
Remember, only right-wing crazies believe in conspiracy theories.
You don’t want to be one of those. :-(
With all due respect, windows like these?
This is really stupid.
I am aware of that but I was trying to keep the focus on the matter at hand. From what I recall, these windows are only replaceable from the outside.
I agree with your point, sorry to be a distraction. Will consider that better next time.
Actually, it was good you did as the amount of silly stuff guised as fact is rampant on this story.
As I fit my tinfoil on, does it seem since the Oklahoma Bombing that many crucial details and unanswered questions of such horror subsequent are just lost down the memory hole by ignorance or design? I think my point is that in an ever growing abundance of information in society that we are becoming less privy to information especially from the media and government.
Doesn’t look like gun flashes to me, more like a light reflecting as the cab moves by. In any case, if it was shots there would be a broken window as already noted.
I’m a skeptic on most conspiracy theories, but I wouldn’t link TWA800 in with those. The government explanation that the fuel tank spontanously exploded never sounded right to me. It’s never happened before or since. Not a conspiracy, just the desire to tie things into a neat package rather than say “We don’t know what happened”. Although the idea that a plane can just spontanousely explode is a lot more worrisme to me than a terrorist attack.
I didn’t interpret the NTSB findings as a spontaneous explosion, but rather one with a clear cause.
IIRC they concluded that an electrical spark from a wire set off fumes in the tank, but there was no real evidence other than the the tank was the location of the explosion. I always thought it was just as likely that someone could have put a bomb in the tank. No way to know but I wonder how much they investigated the ground crew’s background.
They were firing from the grassy knoll......
“...The government explanation that the fuel tank spontanously exploded never sounded right to me. It’s never happened before or since. ...”
Try gathering more aero engineering knowledge before making such assertions. Not to mention experience.
USAF’s KC-135 aerial refueler (Boeing 720) used the same tank design. Electrical shorts and tank fires have happened so often over the half-century of service by that airframe are so common as to be almost a proverb.
Aircraft may not spontaneously explode, but they are very light, even flimsy structures that contain thousands of gallons of highly flammable liquid fuel - which they have to burn to stay in the air; this means hot metal and giant fire hazards close together at all times during normal operation. Fuel tankage, transfer, gauging, filtering, and flow to the powerplants are constant concerns of everybody involved (designers, builders, maintainers, and aviators), of the utmost urgency.
Aircraft are subjected to a wider range of environmental conditions than any other devices on the planet. They travel quicker than any other conveyance and problems can overwhelm even the savviest crew in a heartbeat.
Anyone think it was a pulsing flashlight like a Fenix PD35 to draw attention away from the shooters perch?. So as to confuse responders and victims and maximize the time the shooter had to wreak havoc?
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