Posted on 10/12/2016 4:16:33 AM PDT by Biggirl
EAST HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) -Police and federal investigators continue to look into what led to a tragic plane crash on Tuesday afternoon. CBS News confirmed that the FBI is looking into whether or not the crash was "intentional."
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Is it because it was close to Pratt & Whitney?
Did the pilot load up with jet fuel and drive into a high-rise office building?
That happened right by work. The Brainard Airport, where they were going, is across the street from me.
Interesting the pilots’ names aren’t mentioned in the article.
-PJ
There was a guy from Jordan who was in that plane, the one that was killed.
...or whether the pilot was Amish...or whether there was a high state health department official on board.
HF
I live in East Hartford myself and seen my computer acting funny for a few minutes then it was normal again. This crash did effect the electric power.
The only thing it affected at my place, was a bunch of the guys were watching the fire on our 9th floor. I was worried that Route 2 would be closed adding another 35 minutes to my commute.
If this was a terror attack, they didn’t do a very good job.
Uh, hasn’t it been shown that the FBI lacks credibility on the subject of determining intent?
Yes, and it is a verdict on the Administration that the first thought is what the message the FBI wants to send vs. finding out what really happened. I had the same thought as you, a politicized FBI is not interested in just finding out the truth anymore.
It looks like an accident. Brainard Airport is across the river...
The Pratt Campus has changed, it has been eons since I have been back with their airport gone and now with the stadium in it’s place. However the aerial photo looks like they were near the Willow St entrance which if you go down that road take you the Renscheler ( spelled correct ? ) R & D facility for UTC which is where the brainiacs ( or they used too, if it hasn’t been moved ) used to invent things, and some in the arena of don’t ask what I do for a living stuff.
I do hope it is just an accident and nothing more. Because in this day and age just reading the word “intentional” would get one nervous.
I work up the road in Springfield. I am trying to figure out where this was. Is it over by Cabellas? Isn’t there an old airfield by the Pratt complex?
It’s ironic that the FBI thinks it can find “intent”.
After all, they publicly disavowed any interest in finding it just a month or two ago.
Yep, the irony of it all.
The FBI is a joke these days, of course. But, this looks like an accident.
PA-34’s are Senecas. They are one of the workhorses of the training fleet. They are twin-engined and what most of us would say are moderately underpowered. A crash with a student pilot on landing approach is a common scenario. Even light loads of av-gas burns like a fireball.
Typical onlooker comments: “fell from the sky,” “explosion,” sounded like a bomb went off, etc. I hope that this was a run of the mill accident. I know it will not be “run of the mill” to those involved and who lost a loved one.
That even one person survived the accident tells me that the plane was probably being flown till the last moments and trying to make the best of whatever caused the problem. They ran out of ideas and altitude at the same time.
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