Posted on 06/05/2009 12:35:45 PM PDT by milwguy
new analysis of the weather in the vicinity at the time of the crash appears to cast doubt on earlier reports that the plane encountered severe thunderstorms, lightning and wind gusts. Though there were storms, they were almost certainly less intense than those sometimes encountered above the United States, and lightning was at least 150 miles away, said Greg Forbes, severe-weather expert for the Weather Channel.
Forbes said an examination of weather data for Sunday, including satellite images, indicated updrafts of perhaps 20 mph, far from the initial reports of 100 mph.
"I wouldn't expect it to be enough to break apart the plane," Forbes said.
Meanwhile, even more doubt was placed on the lightning strike theory when the World-Wide Lightning Network (WWLLN) announced that they did not detect lightning anywhere near the suspected crash area for an hour or more on either side of the event.
(Excerpt) Read more at weather.com ...
I've over 14,000 hours in aircraft from a J-3 Cub to F-4's to 747's.
If I was introduced to an aiplane that was "a difficult task to fly manually while traveling at high altitude and near its maximum speed
I would slowly turn and walk away
This is a totally absurd statement
This is crazy.Every news story changes every 5 minutes.Sounds like a coverup.
My only thought that might make sense regarding terrorism is a lone terrorist like the pilot of that plane that went down several years ago, with the co-pilot praising Allah and taking it straight down.
I also considered carbon monoxide posioning which could have killed everyone, like the plane of the golfer a while back, and if the plane was struck by lightning it could disengage the electrical system, and it went straight down.
I was thinking the same thing.
Cant have the muzzies blowing up planes when Obama is going overseas to make nice nice...can we?
After 9/11, Al Quaeda didn’t claim credit for dozens of months. Bin Laden finally admitted, on video, that the attacks went better than they could have possibly imagined or planned.
Oxygen starvation killed Payne Stewart, Greek passengers in another incident.
There are any number of reasons for not claiming a successful attack right away. People sitting around waiting for terrorists to follow some non-existent playbook to the letter are in for a rude awakening.
Everything's not about you, Hurley.
Oh but in the end it will be!
Possibly. But I still can’t figure out why they wouldn’t choose a flight that was full of their enemies for their first go at it.
MANPADs are heat-seeking missiles. In other words, they target the engines. And, contrary to what you see in the movies, most times it's not a catastrophic explosion that brings the aircraft down, it's just a lack of thrust, or loss of control because of hydraulic problems. When they do miss the engine directly, they usually hit the wings, not the center of the fuselage. Essentially, with big, multi-engine aircraft, shoulder-fired missiles just aren't that effective.
Lastly, at 16K feet the TWA would have been just outside the operational limits of the Stinger II, which is the American-designed, German Built most sophisticated MANPAD out there. For the other Chinese, Pakistani or half a dozen other country's equipment, the plane would most likely have been too high to be hit by a shoulder fired missile.
The point of this article is it DIRECTLY contradicts the other articles claims of 100 mph updrafts, violetn thunerstorms AND lightning in the area. Go to the link of the article and you will see a Brazlian who tracked lightning strikes that night and shows there were none in the area of the plane.
Over 1K people have read this thread, but it appears only you and I are the only "Lost" fans.
The only “claims” of 100 mph updrafts I’ve seen were simply assertions that updrafts of that speed have historically been detected in thunderstorms in the area where this plane was flying — not that updrafts of such great speed had actually been documented during THIS flight. “100 mph updrafts” were cited as a possible cause/factor in this disaster, not cited as events which had actually been documented as occurring while this particular flight passed through the area. That some random Brazilian wasn’t personally able to detect lightning strikes in a location far from any detection equipment is hardly evidence that was no lightning there.
I know I’m reaching here, but... if it’s a trial run, and the idea is not to arouse suspicion and not claim credit, then a ‘neutral’ target is better, precisely because people’s minds turn away from the terrorism option. Heck, there’s probably some Canada geese being waterboarded right now to confess their allegiance to al-qaida and conspiracy to bring that USAir plane down into the Hudson. On the other hand, “who would want to hurt Brazilians & French, that makes no sense...”
Gonna go sit in the corner w/ my foil hat on now
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