Maybe it was just a Rock-it.
Posted on 06/03/2009 4:58:36 AM PDT by faced
facefwd.com<>The FBI is investigating after a Continental Airlines pilot with military training reported seeing a 'missile or rocket' flying straight at his aeroplane. The pilot spotted the unidentified object flying towards his commuter flight on Friday night at 8.09pm shortly after take-off from Bush Intercontinental Airport in Texas. It barely missed the passenger jet, passing just 100 feet below it. It is not known how many were people on board the regional Continental Express flight to Greenville in South Carolina.
The flight was a Continental Express flight, part of Continental Airlines The pilot immediately contacted officials, who brought in the Federal Aviation Administration to investigate. 'The FAA then contacted the Liberty County department dispatcher and reported their pilot reported an object flying straight at his aircraft and passed 100 feet under it,' Ken DeFoor, chief deputy for the Liberty County Sheriff’s Department, was quoted as saying in local media. 'The pilot, from what we understand, was former military,' a police spokesman said. 'He was able to get the coordinates down real quick.'
Last night the FBI met with the sheriff's department and the FAA to discuss the sighting. 'While we have no information to indicate there was a criminal act we certainly do not rule anything out and certainly would not want to speculate on what it may or may not have been,' an FBI spokeswoman said. Police said local hobbyists do set off rockets in the area, but that a search yielded no evidence of anyone doing so.
They are still debriefing the pilot on what he saw. 'We are going to try and come up with a more definite track of this object and its path,' a spokesman said. 'We are trying to find out where it came from, where it went, and who may be responsible for it.'
Has another one been fired?
Is this the major disaster Joe Biden told us would be happening within 6 months?
Because a late term abortionist wasn't in the aeroplane.
I think Obama himself is the first disaster. Isn’t it odd that stuff like this does not make the TV news anymore?
/big sarc
Muslim whack-job murders a soldier in Arkansas, and now this... and I have heard nothing of either incident from the MSM. Hmmm.....
“1 question; why isn’t this making national news headlines? “
We have NO national news media anymore! A national news media would CARE about the nation.
Roman candle.
1 question; why isn’t this making national news headlines?
Because a late term abortionist wasn’t in the aeroplane.
You’re good! (first chuckle this morning!) Sadly it rings pretty true.
The Daily Mail page has nothing about this story, unless I'm missing it.
Could you please post a working link to the story?
Mystery as commercial jet pilot sees 'missile or rocket' flying straight towards his aeroplane
The FBI? Hmmmmm the UFO has big trouble now...
The FAA? While any possible terrorists were speeding from the scene.
It looks like they got around to calling the FBI a day or two later.
Is it they wanted to circulate the 'lightning strike' idea and see if it would stick!
Posted on Monday, November 28, 2005 6:49:25 AM by texianyankee
I heard on the radio this morning, that a pilot of a passenger jet departing LAX claimed to have narrowly avoided being hit by a missile. It was reported that the jet was about 6,000 feet in altitude & over the ocean when the event occurred. The news report further stated that authorities believe it was possibly a flare or a "bottle rocket."
Why does your link only lead to a FR search and not to an article about this? Link to article please.
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