Posted on 12/02/2005 11:52:19 AM PST by RogerWilko
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- FBI agents and Homeland Security officials have been investigating the report of a possible missile fired at an American Airlines plane taking off from Los Angeles International Airport.
Sources told ABC News in Los Angeles that the pilot of American Airlines Flight 621, en route to Chicago, radioed air traffic controllers after takeoff from LAX. He told them a missile had been fired at the aircraft and missed.
The plane was over water when the pilot said he saw a smoke trail pass by the cockpit.
FBI agents believe it was a flare or a bottle rocket, but say they may never know if that's what it actually was, KYW Newsradio 1060 reported.
Me too. I'm flying next week.
Pray for me.
There were 2 or so other news stories (and corresponding threads) where the jetliner reported the height.
This won't be the first time the FBI covered up a potential missle strike on an airline. (TWA Flight 800)
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May have also been Saddam's feared pen missile (tiger hand doesn't go that high).
Hello, Beck. He is fresh.
With all these people making explosives in their bathtubs maybe, some are trying to get into rocketry. (another feeble attempt at terrorism)
Come on now! the TWA 800 FBI cover-up occured during the Clinton Regime and Before 9/11.
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Will do. And remember, JESUS will be with you in Paradise if Your heart belongs to HIM.
>>>FBI agents believe it was a flare or a bottle rocket...<<<
Riiiiiiight... because a bottle rocket contrail is EASILY mistaken for the smoke trail generated by something 500 times larger... like a Grail SAM.
Ditto the flare concept.
lol, i like him too.
Did anyone else in the cockpit crew see it? Did any passenger see it? Is the pilot on medication?
"FBI agents believe it was a flare or a bottle rocket...."
And the dumbass CIA thinks that the backend of a 747 (Flight 800) can fly 17 miles downrange and simultaneously climb 3000 feet without the entire front end of the plane attached.
Who are these lamebrain jackass morons, anyway?
Model rockets can fly that high. Not the kind you buy at the hobby store but more exotic models. Some of these bad-boys are approaching the border with space.
Was it the same one that supposedly shot the airplane taking off from a New York airport shortly after 911?
Those engaged in advanced model rocketry would never, and I assure you, fire one their rockets on the beach under the approach control airspace of LAX.
Maybe a some kids with estes c engines would do such a thing...but not the rocketeers you speak of.
Calling Jim Kalstrom, where are you?
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