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Flt. 587 Eyewitnesses Insist Explosion Came Before Tail Broke Off
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| 12/3/1
| Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Posted on 12/03/2001 7:24:22 AM PST by Carol Roberts
Monday Dec. 3, 2001; 11:07 a.m. EST
Flt. 587 Eyewitnesses Insist Explosion Came Before Tail Broke Off
Two eyewitness to the Nov. 12 crash of American Airlines Flight 587 said over the weekend that investigators for the National Transportation Safety Board are wrong to focus on potential structural defects as the cause of the disaster - insisting instead that the plane's tail came off over New York's Jamaica Bay only after it exploded in a fireball.
"It was after the explosion," eyewitness Tom Lynch, a retired firefighter, told the New York Post. "I'm telling you, the tail was there until the second explosion."
"No tail fell off, not before the explosion. I swear to that," Lynch told the paper's Steve Dunleavy.
The eyewitness said there was absolutely no doubt about what he saw.
"I had my head up taking in that beautiful, clear day and was staring straight at the plane. It made a bank turn and suddenly there was an explosion, orange and black, on the right-hand side of the fuselage. It was a small explosion, about half the size of a car."
He continued:
"The plane kept on going straight for about two or three seconds as if nothing had happened, then ‘vwoof' - the second, big explosion on the right wing, orange and black. It was only then that the plane fell apart. It was after the explosion and I'm telling you, the tail was there until the second explosion."
Lynch, who lives near the Belle Harbor, N.Y. crash site, said he knew thirteen others who also saw the explosion and/or fire.
One, retired police lieutenant Jim Conrad, told Dunleavy:
"I saw exactly what Tom saw. I was near a stop light at the Marine Parkway Bridge. First, the small explosion. The plane kept on going, tail intact, then the big explosion and the plane nose-dived. The first thing I said was: ‘The bastards did it again.'"
Lynch said he's tried to contact the FBI and the NTSB but they weren't interested in his story. Ditto Sens. Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton, and his congressional representative Anthony Weiner, who also gave him the brush off.
"I got no response from anyone," he said.
Last week NewsMax.com asked New York State's newly appointed public security czar James Kallstrom why a traffic surveillance video that reportedly captured Flt. 587's mid-air break up has not been publicly released.
"I have not seen the tape. I heard some mention of it. But I've not seen the tape and I really have no knowledge of it," Kallstrom said.
"Why it hasn't been released, I suspect, is because the investigation is ongoing. But I don't know the answer to that."
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To: Chad
The tail section I was referring to was the piece fished out of the bay with the AA logo on it that looks amazingly undamaged. I have no idea what that section is in your photo...but whatever it is, it landed on land. Those look like the garden apartments that run between 128th & 129th Streets on Newport Avenue in the background.
bent upwards and outwards, from the inside
...sure seems like an explosion to me; but then I never bought the wind theory.
To: justshutupandtakeit
It's an official NTSB photo looking aft over the top of the rear fuselage, showing the left center and left aft vertical stabilizer attachment points.
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Chad
To: Beach_Babe
It's an official NTSB photo looking aft over the top rear of the fuselage, showing the left center and left aft vertical stabilizer attachment points.
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To: GingisK
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To: Carol Roberts
The Wave (the newspaper from Rockaway Beach) is seeking testimony from those who saw American Airlines Flight 587 while it was still airborne on November 12, 2001. They are asking that anybody who wants to supply that testimony to the paper should contact them at 718-634-4000 or by E-mail at editor@rockawave.com. They anticipate that they will soon be hosting a mini-conference on the crash and they want to invite all of those who were eyewitnesses to the flight or the crash itself.
To: jlogajan
"Seriously flawed?" Where exactly do these witnesses insist that the wing broke off and hit the tail? They do not. They say the plane exploded. They SAW the explosion on the right side of the fuselage. Consistent in its entirety with what that shoe-bombing psycho was TRYING to do. As long as Cover-up Kallstrom has no idea why video of the incident has been released, and as long as credible people who SAW THE EVENT with their own eyes say an explosion preceeded the disintigration of the airplane, I choose to believe them. Go back to your job at the NTSB and quit trying to spin us.
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03/10/2002 2:17:34 PM PST
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To: Burr5
BTW, I refer to "these" witnesses. Not that other guy who was referenced.
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03/10/2002 2:29:07 PM PST
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Burr5
To: Burr5
Go back to your job at the NTSB and quit trying to spin us. I don't work for NTSB, I work for the MIB force. And stand by your location, black helicopters are on the way. You know too much. You are the weakest link. Goodbye.
To: Capt. Tom
Let us see the tape!
That would settle the entire matter!
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