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Passenger Jet Crashes in Benin
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Posted on 12/25/2003 7:56:05 AM PST by Dragthor
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:38:13 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; airsec; airsecurity; beirut; benin; cotonou; lebanon; orangealert4; uta141
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To: nightdriver
Wasn't the intake on a -100 oblong?
To: vannrox
SPECULATION: Key Terrorist Organizers die in flight on way to Islamic Home Base. Their Anti-US plans thwarted by CIA operatives. Note to Terriorists: "Plan to kill Americans using Aircraft...then you should avoid flying." Or as we say in the US..."People who live in Glass Houses shouldn't throw rocks".Pretty strange speculation. What makes you think this?
To: Pukin Dog
MSNBC said someone confirmed there had been at least 140 pax.
To: Pukin Dog
I agree. Cockpit area looks like a Boeing type. Engine appears to be side mounted engine from 727. 727-100 my guess.
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posted on
12/25/2003 8:30:04 AM PST
by
ab01
To: ikka
I really wonder who was on the plane.And where it was really headed.
God Bless our brothers and sisters on the front lines, far from their families this Christmas 2003.
To: No Blue States
Any Terrorist motive?Or perhaps there were bad guys on board...
To: ab01
Looks like a 737 to me
Notice the 2 small windows above the main coskpit windows
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posted on
12/25/2003 8:32:12 AM PST
by
Rome2000
(Your right to "Jihad" ends when I have to take off my shoes)
To: ab01
I thought the center engine intake of a 727-100 looked something like a toilet seat. Not round.
To: ab01
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posted on
12/25/2003 8:33:09 AM PST
by
Rome2000
(Your right to "Jihad" ends when I have to take off my shoes)
To: Rome2000
But the engine mount doesn't track with that.
To: Rome2000
ALmost all Boeing jets have the small upper cockpit windows. It is a 727. No doubt about it.
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posted on
12/25/2003 8:34:32 AM PST
by
Pukin Dog
(Sans Reproache)
To: JackRyanCIA
"Benin Africa? So.
??
To: leadpenny
140 passengers is a fully loaded 727-200.
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posted on
12/25/2003 8:36:05 AM PST
by
Pukin Dog
(Sans Reproache)
To: ab01
Cockpit area looks like a Boeing type. Engine appears to be side mounted engine from 727.Agree.
To: Rome2000
On one of the airline boards they're saying it was a UTA charter. From what I can tell, UTA is/was part of Air France.
Another guy said it was a 737, but I can only ID 747's as part of the old UTA fleet.
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posted on
12/25/2003 8:36:52 AM PST
by
angkor
To: Rome2000
Star Sky windows, 737.
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posted on
12/25/2003 8:38:02 AM PST
by
angkor
To: lump in the melting pot
Thanks for the info. Nothing like a first hand descritption from someone who has been there.
To: Pukin Dog
Correction, 727-100 holds 140. The-200 holds 170
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12/25/2003 8:38:26 AM PST
by
Pukin Dog
(Sans Reproache)
To: angkor
Fuselage mounted engine. Cannot be 73, 74, 75, 76 or a 777.
To: lump in the melting pot
Is that a normal route for a flight to Beirut or could it possibly indicate a failed cockpit takeover that led to the crash ?
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