FBI Sitting on Flt. 587 Videotape

Newsmax ^ | 11.16.01 | Newsmax

[MindBender26]

Typical NewsMax inflaming BS.

Cameras, as shown on web sites, are very wide angle. They have to be to see traffic on a mile long bridge at relatively close range. Aircraft from JFK disappear from view very quiclky and are never more than dots in the first place.

When will some FReepers realize that purpose of sites like NewsMax and even worse WND and DEBKA, are simply to get you riled up, so that can sell web advertising based on hits.

The only question is, will we be dumb enough to fall for it.

[Blueflag]

Thank you. my point, better stated.

[Orangedog]

I still haven't seen anybody make a convincing case for the reasoning behind a coverup.

For now, I share your view on this. The camera that recorded this was likely a low quality unit with rather poor resolution, similar to what you can get at Circuit City for $40 that connects to a PC. My guess is that the FBI was given the tape because the have the facillities and equipment in their labs to enhance the images of the plane. Now if this tape isn't released to the public after a few days, then this starts to smell.

[Goreknowshowtocheat]

They are busy putting bird images in front of the engines. The tape will be ready soon.

[firewalk]

LOL!

[RebelDawg]

after all, turbulence or mechanical failure is just too damn boring to be the truth!

You're right friend, we should all just go on about our daily lives, nothing to see here. Maybe we could all go out and plan a long flight to stimulate the economy and help out the airline industry in general. I mean, we all know how safe it is to fly don't we? Isn't that what the airlines have been telling us for many years? Hmmmm, now it seems that they want us to think that a plane being downed by turbulence is a common event... Yea, that makes sense.

Good citizens, you should listen to what you are being told and do not question it. Questioning authority only shows that you are a tinfoil hat wearing nut case fruit loop.

After all why would anyone suspect terrorists could be behind something like this?

I mean when is the las time that you EVER heard of terrorists destroying an aircraft!!! /SARCASM OFF!

Once again, I would just like to say that there is NOTHING to see here and please book a flight soon... the airlines all need us to start flying. Whell, I may just get my groceries in NY this week rather than down at the corner store so that I can do the patriotic thing and help out the airlines... /SARCASM OFF AGAIN!

[concerned about politics]

I know you're an accident theorist, but give those who feel otherwise their turn as well.
I think there's foul play. So far, there is no clear evidence to prove otherwise.

[afz400]

I still wonder why the FAA never released the surveillance radar tapes (two separate radars captured the event) for TWA 800. Controllers initially remarked that they could see the arc on the missle, and then were silenced by the FBI.

[Native American Female Vet]

"I fully expect to hear about a mysterious fire that somehow consumed all the sealed evidence."

No no no, thats not what happens to video's. Remember, they are blank and nothing was ever recorded on them or someone accidently erases them. Fire and rat droppings only happen to the papework. :-)

[Yankee]

Thousands of layoffs occurred as a result of 9/11 in the airline industry with several carriers going under. Another successful terrorist attack on a US plane would lead to more layoffs and more failures. He's right, you know.

If everyone thought that a bomb took it out, nobody would want to fly.

But if the public could be tricked into believing that there is a fatal flaw in a fair number of the world's fleet of airplanes, they would get a warm and fuzzy feeling of safety, and run to their travel agents to buy tickets, by the droves.

As Arthur Miller said in "Death of a Salesman", "attention must be paid to this man.".

[Orangedog]

Yes, but she is kind of sexy. She's got a good stare, and a darn nice drawl...

You wouldn't have thought that if you had seen and heard her on FOX this morning. Not tryin' to be mean, but she kinda looked and sounded like female impersonater. But it was early and I'm not at my best at 6:30 AM either.

[Jhensy]

No conspiracy theories or tinfoil here...but I still think it was a bomb. What makes you discount the bomb/sabotage theory? Seriously, convince me why it wasn't a bomb! Anyone!

[KeepTheEdge]

Gee, why did the Zapruder film sit in the Time/Life archives for years?

[aruanan]

It's not clear why the FBI has not yet released the MTA video -- or even commented on what it shows.

Because it confirms what eyewitnesses said and undermines all the NTSB pooh-poohing of the eyewitnesses? If it unambiguously supported the current NTSB line, it would already have been played on every television news program.

[MizSterious]

There were also amateur videotapes taken by residents of the area that were confiscated by the authorities, and most never got them back. I'm sure it's all just a paperwork error--not!

[Zorobabel]

Where were The Pope, Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller, on Monday morning?

They were at an "undisclosed location." Like Dick Cheney, or maybe WITH Dick Cheney?

[MizSterious]

LOL--of course you are correct! I keep forgetting the federal protocols for altering handling inconvenient evidence!

[Judge Parker]

Would you agree that eyewitness testimony is always wrong, as in the case of TWA 800 - even when there are hundreds of eyewitnesses? Would you ever believe a murder eyewitness? A rape eyewitness? I think the FBI should come right out and say that they don't trust eyewitness testimony and will never interview another eyewitness - that they will react in evey case as they did with TWA 800.

I think you and I can also agree that the FBI should keep classified the surveilance videos connected with the FBI investigation of the OKC bombing. The cameras may have seen something they didn't see, right?

[KillerWabbit]

IF the Fedgov is hiding evidence of a bombing, they are protecting the US economy.

To say nothing of a ripple effect on fourth quarter sales this year.

Wooeee. This presents a conundrum. Say somebody here has in their possession a videotape of the whole thing, clearly showing a bomb bringing the plane down.

Might it be considered unpatriotic to release such a thing, seeing as how it could devastate the economy, give the terrorists a victory and a huge setback to America in the War on Terrorism? Wouldn't "loose lips sink ships" -- or the country's economy -- apply here?

Or is an honest and open government more important than any of that?