Posted on 05/19/2016 8:08:22 AM PDT by mandaladon
A Cairo-bound EgyptAir flight that went down in the Mediterranean Sea with 66 aboard early Thursday hours after departing from Paris zig-zagged sharply before plunging, according to aviation officials, who said terrorism was a more likely cause of the crash than technical failure.
Government officials from France, Greece and Egypt spoke at separate news conferences even as boats and ships from several countries were scouring the waters off of the Greek island of Karpathos, near where a witness reported seeing a fireball in the sky.
By midday Thursday, an Egyptian plane spotted two orange items believed to be from the missing plane, a Greek military official told The Associated Press.
The official said the items were found 230 miles south-southeast of the island of Crete but still within the Egyptian air traffic control area. One of the items was oblong, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in accordance with regulations.
Speaking from Cairo, Egyptian Minister of Aviation Sherif Fathy said all officials can confirm for now is that the AirBus 320, which left Charles de Gaulle Airport at 11:09 p.m. local time Wednesday and was due in Cairo at 3:15 a.m., "vanished."
"I'm not excluding any theory," said Fathy, who responded to a reporter’s question by saying that the possibility of a terror attack as the cause of the crash is "stronger" than technical failure.
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Someone tell hugh hewlett and the NY Post. They ripped Trump for saying this. That is because they are not used to the president calling terrorism....well.....terrorism.
[That is because they are not used to the president calling terrorism....well.....terrorism.]
Perhaps these idiots would have felt better of Trump called it “workplace violence”...
Can we start with ‘Trump’s Fault’ now? Bush is going to feel left out.
Amish radicals no doubt.....
...and today’s NSS Award (No S*** Sherlock) goes to...
What’s odd concerning the terrorist angle is that no group has been reported yet as taking credit for it. Usually they immediately take credit. That’s the whole idea of terrorism, not only to commit the act but to let the world know that you did it. Leave no doubt as to whether it was mechanical failure or not. Let the world know it was a terrorist act to scare the crap out of us or at least try to.
Hopefully fewer and fewer are even listening to “conservative” pundit Hugh Hewitt (I quit). He’s a bought and paid for shill and sellout and wannabe kingmaker.
O Kay, who was the target on the aircraft?
Or, just another jihadi massacre?
5.56mm
but but but, they said Trump was wrong...
Did they really?
Geez.
I adore that Trump is not PC and speaks the truth.
So how long before the media starts insinuating that Trumps “anti-Muslim rhetoric” sparked the terror attack?
If it’s terrorism for terrorism’s sake somebody would be claiming credit. If it was the targeted assassination of a person or group of persons on board, the responsible party would have no desire to identify themselves.
Thanks for that. I had not read that yet. I did hear on the news that one of the planes previous stops was Brussels. There or Paris could be places where IS could have sneaked a bomb on....
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