[Cold Heat]

I was wondering how long it would take for this to come out in the open...

[Elle Bee]

No surprises here

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[DoughtyOne]

Well _Jim, care to explain what we really read here? You've stated emphatically that the government line on this incident was irrefutable. Now even the government is backing away from it's hard line.

[thinden]

heads up

[piasa]

So... a bombing and not a feul tank explosion, and not a missile strike from either terrorists or the Rivero Theory?

A bombing still won't explain people seeing what looked like a missile.

Did they not really know what happened but had known of threats, and thus met in the situation room?

[stylin19a]

JohnHuang2

you're the best....keep bumpin

[Las Vegas Dave]

Bump (for later reading)

[Sabertooth]

This seems especially relevant in light of the threats made against Air Force One on 9/11. Since a hijacked jetliner would be just about impossible to use as a weapon against a moving target, the substantial and credible threat cited by Ari Fleischer had to be missile or a fighter jet. And we know it wasn't the latter.

And we know that Afghanistan, whatever dismal state it's in, has had the capacity to bring down airplanes with missiles fired from the ground for about 15 years now... Because we gave them Stinger missiles to bring down Soviet aircraft during the Reagan Administration. (Not questioning RR's wisdom at the time, it's just a fact.)

Seems reasonable to me to assume that the Taliban's pals bin Laden,and Saddam Hussein have the same capability. Probably for some time now.

[Lockbox]

Well which is it, a terrorist’s bombing or a US Navy test gone wrong?

I have not read of any lawsuits over this crash. Why in lawsuit happy America?

I have not read of any bulletin by Boeing to “Fix” the fuel tank problem. Why in lawsuit happy America would a major corporation leave itself open to further damages from a ‘major problem’ with the 747?

I have not read of any FAA directive to the airlines to ‘Fix’ the fuel tanks on 747s.

Why at this time did both Mr. Stephanopoulos and Mr. Kallstrom bring up TWA 800? What’s the connection to the terrorist’s WTC action and TWA 800? For those that do not believe in coincidence, the timing of the both these statements is very interesting. And not from ‘one source’ but two major Clinton administration players. Remember that TWA 800 was not a bombing, or missile strike according to the Clinton regimen, so now what’s the connection to a hijacking by terrorists?

Could this be both a terrorist’s action and a US Navy test gone wrong? Could some how the terrorists discovered the ‘Secret' US Navy test and flown TWA 800 into the test area to draw the missile away from the target and towards TWA 800? Or just a bad time for a missile test, which leads us back to coincidence!

More questions then answers, but it seems there is something rotten in Denmark. We need to pressure the sources to explain. This maybe the crack in the Clinton dam. Time to apply pressure! For five years the press may have been covering up this story to cover Clinton. What a story, the ‘free press’ kill a story about either the terrorist’s first blood of US civilians, or a major Clinton mistake that killed US civilians.

Either way, I want to know!

[Lockbox]

Just went to the FAA’s web site and found the ‘AVIATION MAINTENANCE ALERTS‘ page. The links for the ‘View present and previous issues‘, ‘Search the database‘ and the ‘Instant M or D, Form (8010-4)‘ return ‘The page cannot be found’

Interesting, but I’ll try back later, maybe the computer system is down for maintenance!

[Lion's Cub]

Stephanopoulos' future doesn't look very bright... Arkanicide or mental institution?

[Grut]

Calm down, Freepers... they would have suspected it was a bombing at the time and Stephanopolous probably just slipped back into using the word because bombs and bombing were on everybody's mind Sept. 11th. This really is nothing.

[Lockbox]

Safety Critical Bulletins. For a bulletin to be Safety Critical, which means it is published immediately, without union coordination, it must be: A subject matter that requires immediate implementation for safety of flight, e.g., emergency Airworthiness directives, special emphasis inspections, and responses to natural disasters, major accidents, national security or other catastrophic events.

GOLD! This database provides you with all Airworthiness Directives (ADs) issued by the FAA which are still in effect -- some date back to the 1940's. You can quickly view recently published data in this database. ADs can be searched by any word or group of words; or viewed by AD number, Make (Type Certificate Holder) or Model.

FAA database

keyword search ‘747 fuel center tank’ reply ‘No Documents Found‘

keyword search ‘747 fuel tank’ reply ‘No Documents Found‘

keyword search ‘fuel tank’ reply ‘No Documents Found’

HELP, what was the exact model of the 747 for flight TWA 800? I need to review the ‘Airworthiness Directives‘ by model.

[Hugh Akston]

Verrrrrry interesting.

[GretchenEE]

George S. certainly could have made an innocent verbal mistake in the early hours after the September 11 attacks. Not saying he did, just saying he might have. There were lots of verbal gaffes in those first two days.

"Peter Jennings [talked] about President Bush being flown to Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska and taken to the situation room on the base where he could keep in touch with Washington by teleconferencing. Stephanopoulos, implying that this was unnecessary ... "
Well, George, that would work just dandy AFTER the president got back safely to DC, wouldn't it? But he wasn't in DC, was he?

And Petah is taking so many backstabbing swipes at Bush I'm about ready to call him Petunia Jennings. He's acting like a 13-year-old girl who's trying to undercut the girl in her class who is adored by all the guys.

[willyb_jr]

bttt

[Hatteras]

Add to the list, John Kerry (D-Mass.) in a radio interview with Don Imus a day or two later. He ran off a list of past terrorist attacks. Neatly tucked in the middle he included TWA Flight 800.

[verity]

Here we go again!

[aruanan]

... the crash of TWA Flight 800 killed 230 people....

I don't think it was the crash that killed them.

[StormEye]

1) Pan AM 103 over Scotland

2) TWA Flight 800 off of New York

3) Egypt Air flight 900 off of New York.

4) Now the Twin Towers atrocity in New York using
American air carriers.

Commercial air travel has not been safe for Americans for quite awhile and the U.S. Government
knows this. No doubt in my mind that the Feds have been covering up this lack of security.
Particularly, the Clinton Administration.