Bottle rocket???
Musta been the "center fuel tank" hiccuping, right?
Don't think the bottle rocket has the range and the flair doesn't have the range or the speed. Something happened.
It was Santa testing his new hybrid sleigh.
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Also here earlier today.
What was the altitude of the AA flight - when the "smoke trail" went past the cockpit?
I don't know of any "bottle rockets" or "flares" that can send a visible trail past a cockpit at several thousand feet.....
Is the FBI trying to cover up an attack, and keep the natives quiet??
Semper Fi
Let's just "worse case" this. Let's say it was a terrorist, and he did fire a missile at the airliner. Chances are he didn't have just one missile and we'll be hearing from him again real soon, so I wouldn't say we'll never know what was actually fired at that aircraft.
That is, unless he misses again.
Obviously a Mexocet missle.. Burrito overload from East Los Angeles.. with Serrano chili afterburner.. some say the guy landed in El Centro..
tertiary01 has a ping list going on this and he's been updating everyone frequently.
Oswald pumped off three nearly flawless shots with a bolt action Mannlicher-Carcano. Flight 800 was downed by a shorting wire. The Branch Davidians were baby rapers and needed torching. Tim and Terry acted alone. Sandy was just "borrowing". It was merely a bottle rocket.
At over 1,000' up and going 200 knots over the ocean that must be some good bottle rocket.
At face value I think something really did happen. And I'm not above thinking the FBI wants to make it go away. It would not be the first time a plane was fired upon by a missle and the FBI told us it "didn't happen".
What's odd about this is that in the present atmosphere, if the pilot had reported white powder in the restroom, or found a pocket knife in a seat pocket, they would have shut the airport down.
But we have a report of some kind of rocket or missile fired at the plane and life goes on?
Something isn't right here.
"Bottle rocket."
Sounds like a job for "Mythbusters" to me!
When it happens, it will be verrrryyyy interesting listening to the American hating liberals try to spin the event....and watch them as they try to convince everyone that they didn't really mean it when they were pushing for us to cut and run from Iraq.