Explosives traces found on 1 of Russian planes

cnn ^ | 8/27/04 | CNN

[Kornev]

Russian officials say traces of explosives have been found in wreckage of one of two crashed jetliners. Details soon.

[Truth666]

I wonder how is it possible that there could be people that doubted that it was a terrorist act ... As I wrote immediately after the first news :

STATISTICS IS a science

[coconutt2000]

Eheh, Russian maintenance is an art... That's enough to defy even statistics... ;-)

/humor

[HarryCaul]

Obviously from the bomb-sniffing dog training last month.

[GeronL]

we are all shocked and stunned by this news. /sarcasm

[zarf]

STATISTICS IS a science

BS! Statistics is capitalism!!! IE: 4 out of 5 dentists recommend Crest...etc..etc..

[JLAGRAYFOX]

The Russians like old Europe, have yet to realize that they are under attack by muslim terroists. If Putin had an ounce of brains, he would announce today that he is sending 10,000 troops to Iraq and he will be joining the coaltion immediately. If not, Russia deserves to get just what it has gotten. The sooner the civilized world gets the message and acts strongly, the better off the whole world will be!

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I forget who wrote this.
There are lies, dam* lies and STATISTICS.

[Truth666]

You are right - STATISTICS is the science that is more targeted by fraud.
But in this case it is not easy (to say the least) to falsify the results : the sample universe has a cardinality of two objects ...

[capitan_refugio]

I understand the "black boxes" had been tampered with, as well. Inside job?

[DB]

There are a few possibilities:

Terrorism.
Mid air collision.
Mistake at airport (bad fuel for example).

Terrorism would seem the most likely, but there are other possibilities that would explain two planes going down at the same time that took off from the same airport.

[Truth666]

Mid air collision - not a possibility, since crash far apart.

Mistake at airport - in a universe of (put here the number of flights of the last 100 years) this happened 0 times. Probability : 0.000000....1%

[Diogenesis]

Doubtful. And if you add the terrorist alarm
it is most likely terrorism.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

One hour apart?

[Truth666]

Mid air collision - for the purpose of completeness : the possibility that there is a cover-up can be excluded, since debris of both planes has been showed from all perspectives; media was able to confirm locations of debris.

[dennisw]

Al-Q taking credit for the dirty deeds. The Chechnyan branch? Anyways, none of this will stop Russkies from doing business with Iran and other Islamic renegades.


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[tkathy]

The worldwide slaughterings by these subhuman monsters goes on. While George Bush wages a courageous WOT, the fools on the left ignore all this, and wage a vicious, stupid, intellectually dishonest war on Bush.

[Truth29]

Tampering? Do you have a source or link?

[DB]

The early reports said 3 or 4 minutes apart. Did that change?

[DB]

Mechanics a few years ago put the wrong hydraulic fluid in a plane and it crashed. It does happen.

I never said it wasn't terrorism. I simply said there were other possibilities. Any good investigator considers all the possibilities and lets the evidence speak for itself.