Posted on 11/12/2001 7:40:57 PM PST by Freedom of Speech Wins
Monday Nov. 12, 2001; 11:34 p.m. EST
Former NTSB Official Doubts Accident Caused Flt. 587 Crash
Aviation expert and former National Transportation & Safety Board official Vernon Grose said late Monday that he's increasingly skeptical that the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 was purely accidental.
"I am backing away from the ready idea that this is simply an accident," Grose told Fox News Channel's John Scott.
The veteran air crash prober said that he questions the sequence in which the plane broke up over Jamaica Bay before slamming into a residential area in Rockaway, Queens.
"Photographs you've already shown tonigt (indicate) the vertical stabilizer of the aircraft with the American Airlines insignia right on it (fell into) Jamaica Bay long before the engine falls off in Queens," he told Scott.
Grose said that if the vertical stabilizer detached from Flt. 587 over Jamaica Bay, which the plane traversed before plummeting to the ground in Rockaway, it suggested that catastrophic engine failure alone may not have caused the crash.
"No, I don't think that's the situation at all," he told FNC.
"The engine that came free, which apparently was the number 1 left engine, and crashed on land - that was well after the vertical stabilizer was detached from the aircraft and that tells me that somehow..... that the airplane was progressively disintegrating, not just losing an engine and then diving into the ground."
"Earlier today I thought it was simply the loss of an engine that caused this," Grose told FNC. "But I'm not convinced now.... I am becoming more skeptical."
Clearly, there are unanswered questions regarding Flt 587.....
So what do you use as your source of information?
Other than that I read Times of India, Jerusalem Post, Ha'aretz Daily, St. Petersburg Times, Gazeta Wyborcza even though they have the standard European liberal biases, Die Welt, EurasiaNet and assorted other ones based on my language comprehension.
I avoid Washington Times, Newsmax, Worldnetdaily, Debka, the Sun and the London Times.
And of all these sources, which ones reported the facts surrounding the death of Ron Brown (like the opinions of the pathologists and what the photos and x-rays show)? Which reported the facts surrounding Filegate (like the testimony of Linda Tripp)? Which reported the Riady non-refund (i.e., his statement in court last year regarding the DNC/Clinton campaign organizations not returning the illegal money he gave them)? I will BET YOU that Newsmax was one of the few.
Isnt curious how NewsMax and WorldNetPablum have fallen so rapidly from favor? I agree with you. If its a WND or NMx story I typically skip right over it...Now
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