Posted on 07/16/2015 8:25:35 AM PDT by pabianice
Why Did Kennedy Crash?
In the last few minutes before Kennedy's little single-engine airplane went into the heavy seas off Martha's Vineyard, its radar track showed all the evidence of a mind wobbling in the tortured confusion called vertigo. This confusion steered Kennedy down a horrifying spiral to his death on that hot and hazy night in July. If you've ever felt the searing pain of belly-flopping off a diving board, you might rightly suspect that hitting the water at high speed is an impact not much different from colliding with a granite cliff.
The kind of bafflement and panic that killed Kennedy arises in a mind as it struggles with the contradictory signals of its inner ear and its rational faculty. Reason and emotion are at war. The inner ear evolved over millennia to measure one's movement in relation to the fixed sensation of gravity. Gravity always acts as a vector pointing straight down to the center of the earth. The inner ear is equipped with tubes of liquid that shift in response to any movement while the mind compares these signals against this fixed sensation of gravity. This balancing apparatus signals the pilot's mind and says, “You are strapped into a seat that is now as level as if you were sitting squarely at your kitchen table.”
By contrast, at the same moment he was feeling perfectly right-side-up, the aircraft instruments, when correctly interpreted, conveyed the message, “Your wings are tilted steeply to the right of level, the nose of this airplane is pointing way down, and your airspeed is already howling past the red line.”
(Excerpt) Read more at airlinesafety.com ...
Thanks! Still spooky to listen to.
Yeah, they are on the list -
Hillary Clinton super delegate assassinated, gunman later killed by police. But that’s not all. Now super delegate Stephanie Tubbs Jones is found brain dead.
The Murderous Machine made its point.
I also believe they have problems skiing as well.
Kennedys - Can’t Fly, Can’t Drive, Can’t Ski, Can’t Skipper a Boat.....but they know what’s best for us.
James Doolittle, in his autobiography, wrote about this phenomenon, and said the Lindberg had nearly crashed because of it. It’s one of the things that led to Doolittle’s pursuit of instrumentation and aeronautical engineering... that no one was immune.
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I forgot about this until just now reading your post but my dentist told me either his brother or one of his friends was on the recovery team that went down and got the bodies out of the plane. He said they were so covered in crabs that they had to blow off percussion grenades to get the crabs off the bodies and there wasn’t a whole lot left. It just made my stomach turn. So I can imagine that they were cremated.
Well said.
All right, then there was compelling reason for cremation, here.
But there have been cases of fatal accidents followed by hasty cremations before autopsies could be performed, so ordered by powerful politicians.
I wouldn’t have wished such a fate on anyone but there sure were a whole lot of “I told you so”’s uttered in the wake of JFK Jr & the others’ deaths. I was a helicopter pilot in the Army; determining the cause of a fatal crash was the job of the investigation board. Second-guessing by fellow aviators was usually regarded as unseemly.
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