Posted on 12/02/2005 6:56:00 PM PST by NCjim
I can predict that - it only happened because we went into Iraq. Just like 9/11 was our fault because we were not nice enough to the Islamofascists who hate us.
Not in GA. If it is to be had, all we have to do is cross the state line into South Carolina, LOL!
Our 37 year old pregnant woman may be legally allowed to marry their 14 year old boy(and I stress boy)friends, but by God,we keep fireworks out of the hands of citizens.
Exactly.
The "bottle Rocket" thing IS possible, depending of course how high the plane was.... And what tyoe of bottle rocket was used...
When I was 17, I lived in europe for a while... You can buy JUST ABOUT ANY type of Firework legally there... I bought the usual assortment of bottle rockets and M-80s... I also bought a thing called "the green Ghost" which was "technically" a "bottle rocket -It was a ROCKET on the end of a stick... Except the stick was five feet long and the rocket was as big as a shotput... I bought TWO (about 20 bucks each or so).
I would guestimate it went up about 2000 feet or so...
Today (12/3) Courtesy of Daily Breeze
Saturday, December 03, 2005
Smoke trail wasn't threat to plane, say investigators
From staff reports
An unusual vapor trail spotted by the pilot of a jetliner leaving Los Angeles posed no danger to the plane and does not appear to have represented a threat, federal investigators said Friday.
The pilot described the trail as a plume of smoke in the distance, at least a mile below the airplane, shortly after leaving Los Angeles International Airport last week. The FBI is investigating whether it could have come from a flare or a model rocket.
Internet postings and some news reports suggested that the plume could have come from a missile fired at the airliner. But FBI agents said there was no evidence to support that.
"We do not believe that a threat exists," agency spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said.
Other airplanes were in the area, but did not report anything out of the ordinary. Whatever left the vapor trail did not appear on radar, and the pilot never reported seeing any kind of projectile.
The American Airlines flight was climbing over the ocean last Saturday, bound for Chicago, when the pilot "saw a trail out of the cloud cover," airline spokesman Tim Smith said. The plane was about 13,000 feet high, and the pilot estimated the trail was more than a mile below him.
The pilot thought it had come from near the shore and did not appear to be directed at the airplane, Eimiller said. It "absolutely posed no threat" to the aircraft, she added.
The flight continued to Chicago without incident.
However, to take all the independent testimony of witnesses, which corroborates a missile, and discount it because their testimonies disagree in other places is bad detective work at best, and coverup at worst.
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