There was an "Incident" at JFK/America West Flight 17

Little Green Footballs and Michelle Malkin ^ | 9/18/05 | milford421

[milford421]

Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs broke this earlier. Possible SAM fired at passenger plane. Michelle Malkin followed up and has verified that there was an "incident" at JFK International Airport in NY.

America West Flight 17, 6:05p.m. flight involved.

Details still emerging....

Read stories: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/ http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003563.htm

[Just Lori]

Yer kidding, right?

[milford421]

I don't believe in rewarding lawbreakers either.

Good point about immigrants who have been patiently waiting to get in the U.S. legally.

[When do we get liberated?]

Good idea, as much as I see the good in Mexican immigration, I still would rather see 1,000 more Polish engineers than a similar number of Mexican carpenters. Immigration has always been the cornerstone of this country, it is only logical that we secure the borders, blow out the leeches that have no SS#, abolish the Tax I.D. card program and be a little more selective about who we let in.

[endthematrix]

So this is what I have to deal with on FR...

LRM: "If this is true, it would not happen if he borders were closed and illegals flushed out of the United States. This is Bush's fault along with the power elite."

How ignorant, since terrorism has and will occur from Americans. Oh, and it's Bush's fault...puleeze!

Staytrue: "Yes, we need to legalize the illegals so they can register and be screened. That way we can concentrate on the terrorists."

Legalize the illegals, yeah that's the plan. Not a good one.

[kublia khan]

This story has been out for about eight hours with no verification and no corroboration, I'm afraid this one might be a bust boys

[taxesareforever]

More of the same. Don't alarm the public when attacked by the religion of peace. Hear no evil, see no evil.......

[FairOpinion]

An earlier thread was relegated to chit-chat and conspiracy, but it looks like there may be something to it.

Breaking: Possible SAM Attack Against US Plane (right now this is completely unverified)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1486607/posts

[conservativepoet]

"Michelle Malkin followed up and has verified that there was an 'incident' at JFK International Airport in NY."

[Keith in Iowa]

Followed up with whom?

Another blogg? An FAA offical? Airport worker? Pilot?

[milford421]

Right you are.

[milford421]

You are correct. The thread you posted is being updated.
I apologize...I didn't catch it.

[conservativepoet]

According to Michelle Malkin,

I just got off the phone with Phil Gee, associate manager of media relations at America West, who promptly returned my late evening call. Here’s what he told me:

On Sept. 15 (Thursday), America West Flight 17 took off from JFK Airport at 6:05pm EDT. The captain “took the initiative,” says Gee, and reported an “irregularity” to air traffic control as the plane was ascending. The plane continued to Phoenix and landed safely at 8:55pm MST. FBI and other authorities met and interviewed all of the crew and passengers on the plane. The investigation is continuing.

Gee would not say whether the pilot or other crew or passengers reported witnessing a missile firing.

"Nothing is confirmed," Gee said.

Although one tipster says America West has informed its pilots of the incident, Gee denied that any company bulletin has been issued. Gee mentioned that he had heard that other airline pilots had posted about the incident on an online forum."

[CurlyDave]

I'm afraid this one might be a bust boys

How long did it take for Able Danger to come to light?

Some things have been successfully covered up for very long times, and some things have been successfully covered up forever.

There are clearly times when it is in the best interest of the country to cover things like this up. If there was a real missile launched and it missed, the economic damage which would be done by widely publicising it would convert a failed terror operation into a highly successful one.

Also, the perps may not cover their tracks as thoroughly if they believe they are in the clear.

Consider the fact that most of the anti-terror operations since 9-11 have been highly classified.

While I don't like it one bit, I recognize that the civilian population does not need to know everything. "Freedom of the press" and "disclosure of all information" are not the same thing.

[CurlyDave]

Has anyone considered looking at the passenger list for that flight?

If it was a random attack this will not shed any light, but there could have been a specific target.

[null and void]

*sigh* Bingo.

[ALASKA]

Maybe it was an RPG fired from the end of the runway...........much easier to miss with one of those. I still think the Rockaway Bay crash was an RPG or an on-board shoebomber.

[DTogo]

This is bogus. Our Dept. of Homeland Security has everything under control: our borders, who's who here in the U.S., worker screenings at major airports, etc.

/mega-sarc

[conservative in nyc]

According to Passur, the flight took off about 15 seconds before 6:50PM on Runway 22R, and flew straight out over Jamaica Bay, over the Rockaways, and across the Atlantic Ocean to just south of Sandy Hook, NJ. Typical flight path for a plane going southwest out of JFK.

According to PASSUR, the aircraft that took off directly before AWE 17 was Delta flight 2029, a 757 bound for Orlando. Emirates flight 9900, a 747, followed AWE 17, bound for Gothenberg, Sweden.

According to PASSUR, AWE 17 flew within a few miles of but far below a Lear Jet 60 at (37,000 feet) and a Sun Country 737 getting ready to land at JFK (at 13,000 feet) while climbing over the Atlantic Ocean at 4000 feet.

According to Google Earth, there's marshland at the end of 22L before a departing flight would reach the Rockaway Peninsula. The Rockaways are about 4-5 blocks wide at the point the flight overflew it at around 2000 feet and climbing.

LiveATC.net's archives don't have the JFK tower or Approach/Departure tapes from the 15th. I think the JFK scanner link has been down for a while.

The sun is setting around 7:00 in New York these days. The LiveATC.net radar shows that there were some heavy showers over parts of South Jersey, upstate New York, and east of Long Island at 7PM, but nothing near JFK.

[Cindy]

Thank you vry much for the info, conservative in nyc.

[Cindy]

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