Air Turbulence May Be Factor in Jetliner Crash, Officials Say

New York Times ^ | 11/14/01 | SHERRI DAY

[Dog Gone]

Thanks for the info.

[copycat]

32% believe it was sabotage

17% believe it was bomb...etc...

Well, I'm happy to fall into the majority category as I believe it was sabotage AND a bomb.

[thinking]

Forget the EMP stuff....in order to swamp the aircraft electronics, a megawatt, wideband radio frequency transmitter, with a highly directive antenna system, would be required....

As the crash was in a residential area, all the household electronics, TV, radios, garage door devices, would have been fried as well...didn't happen, folks.....

I had read some time ago that, it was the pilots excessive rubber input, that broke off the rubber assembly....but then, maybe someone adjusted the sensitivity of the rubber controls too high, so that a modest input by the pilot, resulted in excessive movement of the rudder....

[RadioAstronomer]

Are you replying to the right guy? I did not even imply EMP was the cause of any accident.

[RadioAstronomer]

Odd that you would find a 4 year old thread. How did you stumble across this one?

[thinking]

Sorry, it was a general comment, not specifically direct at you....and I didn't reopen this thread...but I have keen interest in the subject....when this incident happened, I commented at the time that is was terrorism, but was shot down ....