Posted on 08/24/2004 3:01:38 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
Per Foxnews Alert. Into the red sea.
60 people aboard the first one.
Please go to "time out" until you can think like an adult.
What on earth is wrong with people speculating — even if they do so in a declarative way? What skin is it off your nose? I understand your point. However, unlike you and a couple of others on this thread, I just am not exercised over equally understandable speculation as to these being terrorist acts. After all, as noted, even Russian authorities are not ruling out terrorism as of latest reports.
Hey, do us all a favor please. SHUT UP. It's really getting tiresome.
Do you know what time 1900 GMT is in Moscow local time?
That is the one that was arrested up north for riding his skateboard.
Apparently, he loved to get into religious or political arguments. We saw a couple skateboard hitchikers on 1 on a trip up Tuesday evening.
I presume that's in your best William Shatner angst voice.
That was referring to today, not Sept. 11th.
And yes, the first plane on Sept. 11th could have easily been an accident.
Same leftist tactics used in Georgia then, organized protests, bussing in demonstrators. Soros funded.
Here's the link to that story
Prairie
Looks that way, based on what we know so far.
Is there any possibility that we can have James Kalstrom sent to the Russians in order to get things straight?
Of Course.
Um, why do you think my t-shirts and jeans smell like vodka? :-)
Actually, 7500 is hijack. 7700 is Emergency.
We need your help.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two Russian passenger planes with a total of more than 80 people on board went missing within minutes of each other late on Tuesday and one was confirmed to have crashed, the Emergencies Ministry said.
A ministry spokeswoman said a two-engine Tu-134 with 34 passengers and eight crew flying from Moscow to Volgograd crashed after contact with it was lost at 2256 Moscow time (2:56 p.m. EDT).
The wreckage was found near the town of Tula some 90 miles south of Moscow. Witnesses saw an explosion on board the plane just before it crashed, Interfax news agency quoted local authorities as saying.
Just three minutes later, air traffic controllers lost contact with another passenger plane -- a three-engine Tu-154 with 44 passengers and eight crew on board -- flying from Moscow to the Black Sea resort of Sochi, she said.
Contact was lost as the plane was flying near the southern city of Rostov-on-Don.
Initially, Itar-Tass news agency said that a Tu-154 with 54 passengers and eight crew on board had crashed near Tula.
Tupolev's Tu-154 jet remains the standard medium-range airliner on domestic flights in Russia, according to aviation Web Sites. Some 157 ft in length, it can carry up to 180 passengers for up to 2,500 miles.
© Reuters 2004. All Rights Reserved.
Yes. What the air traffic controllers see is actually a return signal from a box called a transponder...it receives the radar signal and sends back a coded burst of information such as altitude, airspeed, etc. The pilots set a four-digit code on the transponder as assigned by ATC.
If they turn off the transponder, then all that controllers will see is the "primary return" of the radar hitting the skin of the plane...just a blip without other information, and maybe not even that if the plane is far from a radar site.
The 9/11 hijackers turned the transponders off on all four aircraft after seizing control. It made it harder for ATC to track them.
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LOL. I had a couple shirts that smelled like Paulaner Weizen after a trip back from germany.
that's the point - that was terrorism, not a double accident.
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