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Air France crash: plane may have broken up in mid-air
Telegraph UK ^
| June 3, 2009
| By Henry Samuel in Paris
Posted on 06/03/2009 10:30:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Must have been one of those lighting strikes that blows up airliners...
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posted on
06/03/2009 10:32:24 AM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(What did Obama's Teleprompter know, and when did it know it...)
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
Yeah it was a wire shorting out in the fuel tank ... and I’m the easter bunny
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posted on
06/03/2009 10:34:18 AM PDT
by
clamper1797
(FUBO ... MUSLIM protege of the unholy union of Karl Marx and affirmative action)
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
No, it was the friction of a wire rubbing against the fuel tank that caused a spark that actually was able to penetrate the fuel tank, that caused the explosion.
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posted on
06/03/2009 10:34:28 AM PDT
by
Boiling Pots
(Barack Obama: The final turd George W. Bush laid on America)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Random exploding aircraft... Even less bad than man caused disaster...
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posted on
06/03/2009 10:34:36 AM PDT
by
LikeLight
(http://www.believersguidetolegalissues.com)
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
The instant they mentioned a 3 mile spread of debris, all my questions were answered.
To: LikeLight
how long until Al Gore and CNN emerge blaming Global Warming..
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posted on
06/03/2009 10:36:49 AM PDT
by
heiss
To: Oldeconomybuyer
To: heiss
From the linked article:
One anonymous Air France pilot suggested that a bomb could "very well" be the cause of the crash. He said: "One can very well imagine that a bomb caused the aircraft's depressurisation and that the plane took time to break up. It could just as well have been a big bomb that blew up the entire plane, which would explain why the aircraft didn't have time to send an alert signal."
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posted on
06/03/2009 10:37:33 AM PDT
by
LikeLight
(http://www.believersguidetolegalissues.com)
To: PetroniusMaximus
Has anyone heard if any passengers contacted loved ones?
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posted on
06/03/2009 10:37:41 AM PDT
by
roses of sharon
(We must get a grip on what we can, and hold on. Hold on with energy, imagination, and ferocity)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Practically brand-new airplanes don't "blow-up" at altitude without some kind of intervening action or cause.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
:Massive depressurization...” just another way of saying having the holy crap blown out of you. We are so afraid to consider the possiblity of terrorism that we allow ourselves to be lulled to sleep.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Islamic bombs will cause that to happen.
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posted on
06/03/2009 10:39:45 AM PDT
by
Sig Sauer P220
(The great object is that every man be armed. - Patrick Henry)
To: LikeLight
"Random exploding aircraft... Even less bad than man caused disaster..." LOL - Yeah, someone needs a new PR firm if they think the best "story" to put out there is that the plane "magically" blew-up, in flight and at attitude. Somehow, I don't think that's going to be a comfort to the flying public.
To: PetroniusMaximus
Mine too though I suspected it from the very first time I heard the weather theory.
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posted on
06/03/2009 10:40:19 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(I love defenseless animals, especially in a good gravy.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Terrorism has not been ruled out but they said the most likely scenario was that the break-up was caused by massive depressurisation inside the plane. Spontaneous depressurisation?
To: PetroniusMaximus
There must have been some kind of explosion or catastrophic break up. But no one is claiming “credit” for this. Hmmm.
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posted on
06/03/2009 10:40:56 AM PDT
by
colorado tanker
("Lastly, I'd like to apologize for America's disproportionate response to Pearl Harbor . . . ")
To: LikeLight
One anonymous Air France pilot suggested that a bomb could "very well" be the cause of the crash.
Have any terrorist groups claimed credit? Terrorism doesn't work if no one knows it was terrorism.
To: PetroniusMaximus
The instant they mentioned a 3 mile spread of debris, all my questions were answered. By which, I presume, you mean to imply it was terrorism.
As for me, I could see that sort of spread taking place as a result of the fact that the plane was at 35k feet, in a line of severe thunderstorms.
The breakup can be explained by the turbulence reported by the pilots; the spread of debris can be explained by altitude, speed, and stuff getting caught in updrafts.
The string of automated failure messages was spread over several minutes, which seems more consistent with an explanation of gradual structural failure.
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posted on
06/03/2009 10:42:20 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: AnotherUnixGeek
That very same flight received a bomb threat two days earlier.
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posted on
06/03/2009 10:42:33 AM PDT
by
Reagan69
(No Representation without Taxation !)
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