Hmmmmmm. That paragraph bears repeating:
"Sometime between December 2001 and February 2002, an unidentified Federal Aviation Administration quality assurance manager crushed the cassette case in his hand, cut the tape into small pieces and threw them away in multiple trash cans, the report said."
To: Middle Man
What the???
2 posted on
05/07/2004 12:02:22 PM PDT by
Mo1
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To: Middle Man
Why do people do things like this?
3 posted on
05/07/2004 12:03:24 PM PDT by
krb
(the statement on the other side of this tagline is false)
To: Middle Man
You might want to check out both posts from yesterday - lots of replies to each.
LVM
6 posted on
05/07/2004 12:05:20 PM PDT by
LasVegasMac
("If everything is just barely under control......you are not going fast enough" - MA.)
To: Middle Man
I don't like the sound of that. I don't like the sound of that at all.
To: Middle Man
Wow. I am interested in how the FAA answers that allegation. I could potentially understand them not having the tapes...I could even see someone claiming to have accidentally destroyed the tapes. (I've taped over things I meant to keep). But to purposefully and deliberately destroy it.....that is begging for a conspiracy theory if they cannot come up with an explination.
11 posted on
05/07/2004 12:08:34 PM PDT by
blanknoone
(How many flips would a flip-flop flop if a flip-flop could flop flips?)
To: Middle Man
There was an
earlier thread on this. IIRC, the destroyed tapes were "unofficial".
12 posted on
05/07/2004 12:09:27 PM PDT by
snopercod
(I used to be disgusted. Then I became amused. Now I'm disgusted again.)
To: Middle Man
Obviously there were some controller failures, neglegt/ late or missed actions on these tapes.
Later analysis would possibly have revealed controller or supervisor failures in this unionized environment.
We never will know.
18 posted on
05/07/2004 12:15:45 PM PDT by
hermgem
To: Middle Man
The fact that the guy had promised the union he would destroy it leads me to believe that the concern was over matters of individual performance or neglect. I just can't figure out how a controller's neglect could have affected 9/11. Anyone have an idea? Was the ATC to blame for allowing (by not sounding the alarm fast enough) the two WTC planes so close to NY? I don't know. But I don't think this has anything to do with any shoot-down.
29 posted on
05/07/2004 1:04:24 PM PDT by
Mr. Bird
(Ain't the beer cold!)
To: Middle Man
No cover-up here!
Nothing to see...................
Move along.............
35 posted on
05/07/2004 2:18:15 PM PDT by
WhiteGuy
(Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...)
To: Middle Man
hmmmm
37 posted on
05/07/2004 6:31:05 PM PDT by
satchmodog9
(it's coming and if you don't get off the tracks it will run you down)
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