The Lightening Surface To Air Missile (BARAK)
Posted on 01/25/2010 4:08:37 PM PST by rdl6989
AN AIRCRAFT that crashed minutes after taking off in a thunderstorm, killing all 90 people on board, is thought to have been struck by lightning.
The Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 had just left Beirut in Lebanon for the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa when it burst into a "ball of fire" and plunged into the Mediterranean.
There were two Britons among the 83 passengers on board. One of them was named as haulage firm owner Afif Krisht, 56, who had dual British-Lebanese nationality, and whose former wife lives in Plymouth.
Flight ET-409 crashed into the sea two miles offshore. It disappeared from radar screens five minutes after taking off at 2:37am (12:37am British time).
The Lebanese army said it had broken up in the air. Witnesses described the impact as a "flash that lit up the whole sea".
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Yeah, because aluminum-bodied planes always explode when struck by lightning. Uh huh, yeah. I’m not saying this is BS, but my detector is definitely picking up something.
Something in these descriptions reminds me of Flight 800.
/ big time sarc
The Hebrew word for lightning is Barack...
Thought it was the bra bomber.
Yes, why doesn’t this sort of thing happen all the time?
Two planes were struck by lightning in CA last week.
It’s not impossible. Both the planes were on the ground if I remember.
Airplanes! They just blow up so soon after take off these days!
A fruit of the boom succeeds.
Many people bought the whole Air France ‘lightning strike’ story so I guess when a plane goes down and ‘they’ do not want to tell the public it’s a bomb/terrorism/etc....they will now roll out the ‘lightning strike’ narrative....
It’s take a lightning strike of biblical proportions to bring down a civilian airliner.
I smell something......
I think your nose is correct. Somebody on another thread last night posted the weather in the area at the time and it didn't seem too bad.
But technical experts, astounded like everyone else by the disappearance of an Air France jet in the Atlantic with the feared loss of 228 lives, say lightning alone could not have caused it to crash into the ocean.I would classify this as suspicious until strong evidence to the contrary appears.Air France has said the A300-200 jet was probably hit by lightning as it passed through a violent storm on the flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on Monday.
But the airline's chief executive Pierre-Henry Gourgeon said it suffered multiple technical failures before falling off radar screens.
"A succession of a dozen technical messages" sent by the jet showed that "several electrical systems had broken down" which caused a "totally unprecedented situation in the plane," said Gourgeon.
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Nearly every commercial pilot has a tale of coming through a lightning storm. The French national office for aerospace study and research (ONERA) says that on average a plane is hit by lightning every 1,000 hours.
Yup.
Very reminiscent of TWA 800. Many similarities, but with a lesser loss of life.
The Lightening Surface To Air Missile (BARAK)
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