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Egypt rules out terrorism in Red Sea plane crash
Agence France-Presse
| 1/04/04
Posted on 01/03/2004 11:36:24 AM PST by kattracks
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posted on
01/03/2004 11:36:25 AM PST
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kattracks
To: kattracks; FairOpinion; seamole
Egyptian and French officials rushed to exclude terrorism as a possible cause for the crash of a charter plane after it took off for Paris from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. They seem in a bit of a hurry!
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01/03/2004 11:44:19 AM PST
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posted on
01/03/2004 11:44:51 AM PST
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To: kattracks
The usual policy. First rule out terrorism and then investigate the accident. And then, if you learn that it WAS terrorism, don't admit it, because that would be contradictory and make you look foolish.
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posted on
01/03/2004 11:46:33 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Cicero
The usual policy. First rule out terrorism and then investigate the accident. And then, if you learn that it WAS terrorism, don't admit it, because that would be contradictory and make you look foolish.Exactly. This is getting to be standard procedure now. And, in the event there are hundreds of witnesses such as with Flight 800, they just discount them as delusional. If we ever find out the truth, that plane was terrorized as surely as Hillary got some slippery "help" with those cattle futures, Redbone.
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posted on
01/03/2004 11:58:54 AM PST
by
thesummerwind
(Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes)
To: Cicero
> First rule out terrorism and then investigate the accident.
As I've joked before, usually it's ruled out just before
the crash.
Debka (usual caveats apply)
raises interesting questions about this incident.
In any case, statements of "terrorism ruled out" are
clearly without foundation, unless Cairo already knows
what caused this crash (oops - the practice AA7 was live).
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posted on
01/03/2004 12:00:38 PM PST
by
Boundless
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
These would be the same Egyptians who don't think their pilot augured one into the Ocean after leaving NYC?
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posted on
01/03/2004 12:02:10 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Egyptian and French officials rushed to exclude terrorism as a possible cause for the crash of a charter plane after it took off for Paris from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. They seem in a bit of a hurry!
Not surprising. The Egyptians want to avoid another tourism scare, of course. I don't know why dying from terrorism is more frightening than dying from an accident, but it is.
The French have an agenda, too, since the plane that crashed was built by their competitor (Boeing). If the cause is ruled to be terrorism, Airbus and Boeing both lose orders, but if it's a defect in a Boeing plane, Airbus can gain from it.
Unless there's some independent oversight, this investigation may need to be investigated...
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posted on
01/03/2004 12:02:29 PM PST
by
ZOOKER
To: kattracks
"The aircraft had an ordinary technical failure just after take-off, which caused a loss of control and it crashed into the sea south of the airport of Sharm Sheikh," Shafik told state-run television, without specifying the nature of the failure.Just your usual, everyday, no-fault technical failure that causes airborne vehicles to suddenly drop from the sky. Coulda happened to anybody from Chuck Yeager to Chuckie Cheese.
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posted on
01/03/2004 12:04:17 PM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: kattracks
"The incident is absolutely not the result of a terrorist act, but is linked to a technical failure of the plane," Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher said of the disaster that officials said killed all 148 people aboard."Because we would never hit one of our own planes, hahahaha."
To: ZOOKER
Very true. With a mechanical failure, Boeing will take a hit and Airbus will gain worldwide favor.
I am not an airline expert but seem to believe that it takes days, months, forever to identify cause of catastrophe.
How can terrorism be ruled out so quickly? Were the black boxes located?
Even with a mechanical failure, could sabotage be ruled out so quickly? Have the mechanics, airline crews been investigated, interviewed, cleared???
To: Paladin2
"the crash of a Boeing 737,
operated by the Egyptian company Flash Airlines"
From the linked DEBKA story. I didn't see that the charter company was Egyptian anywhere else. Likely to have an EGYPTIAN pilot? They have a bad track record.
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posted on
01/03/2004 12:10:08 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: undergroundwarrior
They made sure that 990 was called an accident for a long time, sometimes still.
To: ZOOKER; kattracks
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posted on
01/03/2004 12:23:29 PM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Davis is now out of Arnoold's Office , Bout Time!!!!)
To: Freedom of Speech Wins
France+Muslims+Egypt+Airlines+Plane+Explosion+Pilot+dead=?????????????????????
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posted on
01/03/2004 12:49:22 PM PST
by
Dallas59
To: Sir Gawain
"The incident is absolutely not the result of a terrorist act, but is linked to a technical failure of the plane," Egyptian Foreign Minister Baghdad Bob said of the disaster....
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posted on
01/03/2004 12:52:02 PM PST
by
citizen
(Write-in Tom Tancredo President 2004!)
To: BradyLS
"The aircraft had an ordinary technical failure just after take-off, which caused a loss of control and it crashed into the sea south of the airport of Sharm Sheikh," Shafik told state-run television, without specifying the nature of the failure. Oh, probably just a loose stabilizer or wing or something. The average everyday kind of stuff.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: kattracks
What did you expect? A typical Clinton, Dean, Clark and "traitor/treason" Democrat response!
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