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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Or a YouTube video.
I wonder if the three security people on the plane and the recent unusually long security lines in the US means something was expected.
Reports are circulating that fanatics have a “lap top” bomb.
ISIS took credit
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/MSR804/history
Why was an A320 substituted for a flight the routinely used a 737?
Where's my tinfoil?
[Let’s wait for Obama’s opinion!]
Funny. Yes, great idea. No doubt there are millions who still think he’s the final authority, or any authority, on any subject.
‘Known Salafist’ allowed to work at Berlin airports
TheLocal.de ^ | 18 May 2016 14:49 GMT+02:00
A worker was allowed access to secure areas of both of Berlin’s airports for up to 10 months after authorities found out he had links to fundamentalist Islam, media reported on Wednesday.
Recep Ü., a Turkish-born aircraft cleaner for a private firm at the airport, was allowed into the secure areas of Tegel and Schönefeld airports to do his job.
German air security law states that only people who have passed a security check can work in such sensitive zones of an airport.
But although Ü. had passed such a check in 2011, he did not lose his security clearance after authorities discovered his connections to the Salfist (an Islamic fundamentalist movement) scene, Berlin’s Morgenpost newspaper reported on Wednesday. …
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3431648/posts
He’s “All In”.
American media will change that to “Authorities are looking into the possibility of terror, but nothing is known at present”.
Chances are it was a lone wolf who was inspired by a terrorist group but not directly sponsored by them.
RE: ISIS - The responsibility claim I mentioned has not been confirmed
Recent news about airport delays made me suspicious that there was a specific threat that was motivated heightened tsa screening.
AGREED
I just stared listening to him since Bill Bennett went off the air. This morning he said he wished Romney would go third party. He has all these leftist press people come on for 5 min conversations and most of the time he is friendly to them and agrees.
Exactly. He’s been doing that all through this election cycle. He repeats the same question du jour (usually along the lines of “Trump can’t get the nomination” or “Trump can’t beat Hillary) to every guest and they all agree with his analysis. A boring, broken record, and wrong to boot.
Everybody please scour YouTube to find out which video caused this.
I was right again. Early after the announcement of the plane going down, I tweeted out that it appeared to be Islamic terror. The Associated Press, in an effort to once again bash me, published an article that criticized my observation. The Associated Press really loves Hitlery.
I like how the media described the zig-zag as
a 90 degree turn to the left and a 360 degree turn
to the right. Uh huh.
Next up Egypt, where the CIA will soon return after their previous overthrow failed to hold. The Egyptian Army had better prepare.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3431117/posts?page=23#23
Look for follow-on attacks in the next few days.
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