Posted on 11/12/2001 5:30:38 AM PST by Attila_the_Hun
Unfortunately, they're the same ones who didn't believe that the Florida anthrax case wasn't an isolated incident as was officially reported for a while...
Jet engines are tough, but not nearly as tough as some folks (especially those that have no experience on them) believe.
We have an override from the ground now: scramble the jets and shoot it. The same level of security that results in scrambling the jets can be achieved in overriding the pilot with software.
Testing a security system doesn't compromise the security of its implementation because in production the encryption keys are different.
-Sept. 11, 2001: American Airlines Flight 11 en route from Boston to Los Angeles is hijacked and crashes into the World Trade Center; 92 killed.
-Sept. 11, 2001: United Flight 175 en route from Boston to Los Angeles is hijacked and crashes into the World Trade Center; 65 killed.
-Sept. 11, 2001: American Flight 77 en route from Washington's Dulles International Airport to Los Angeles is hijacked and crashes into the Pentagon; 64 killed.
-Sept. 11, 2001: United Airlines Flight 93 en route from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco is hijacked and crashes near Pittsburgh; 44 killed.
-Oct. 31, 2000: Singapore Airlines jumbo jet slams into an object before takeoff for Los Angeles and bursts into flames; 81 killed.
-July 25, 2000: Air France Concorde headed to New York crashes into hotel outside Paris shortly after takeoff; 113 killed.
-July 17, 2000: Alliance Air Boeing 737-200 crashes into houses during second landing attempt at Patna, India; 51 killed.
-April 19, 2000: Air Philippines flight from Manila crashes on approach to Davao, Philippines; 131 killed.
-Jan. 31, 2000: Alaska Airlines Flight 261 plunges into ocean off Southern California on flight from Mexico to San Francisco; 88 killed.
-Jan. 30, 2000: Kenya Airways A-310 crashes into Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, to Lagos, Nigeria; 169 killed.
-Oct. 31, 1999: Egypt Air Boeing 767 crashes into Atlantic after taking off from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on flight to Cairo, Egypt; 217 killed.
-Feb. 24, 1999: China Southwest Airlines plane crashes in field in China's coastal Zhejiang province; 61 killed.
-Dec. 11, 1998: Thai Airways International A-310 crashes on domestic flight during third landing attempt at Surat Thani, Thailand; 101 killed.
- Sept. 2, 1998: Swissair Flight 111 from New York to Geneva crashes off Nova Scotia; 229 killed.
-Feb. 16, 1998: Airbus A-300 owned by Taiwan's China Airlines crashes near Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek airport while trying to land after flight from Bali, Indonesia; 196 killed.
-Feb. 2, 1998: Cebu Pacific Air DC-9 crashes into mountain in southern Philippines; 104 killed.
- Aug. 5, 1997: A Korean Airlines Boeing 747 crashes near Guam Island; 228 killed.
- Nov. 12, 1996: Saudi 747 collides shortly after takeoff with a Kazak Ilyushin-76 making its landing approach; 349 killed.
- July 17, 1996: TWA Flight 800, a Paris-bound 747, explodes and crashes off New York's Long Island shortly after takeoff from Kennedy International; 230 killed.
- Dec. 21, 1988: Pan Am Boeing 747 crashes in terrorist bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland; 270 killed.
- Nov. 28, 1987: South African Airways 747 crashes off the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean; 160 killed.
- Aug. 12, 1985: Japan Air Lines 747 crashes into a mountain on a domestic flight; 520 killed.
- June 23, 1985: Air India Boeing 747 crashes off the coast of Ireland because of terrorist-planted bomb; 329 killed.
- Nov. 27, 1983: Avianca Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas airport; 183 killed.
- Sept. 1, 1983: Korean Air Lines 747 shot down by a Soviet fighter after flying through Soviet airspace near Sakhalin Island; 269 killed.
AP-ES-11-12-01 1226EST
Mechanical Trouble Reported Before Take-Off
An American Airlines A-300 reported mechanical trouble while waiting to take off Monday morning, about an hour before it crashed just outside News York's JFK Airport.
AA Flight 587 was scheduled to take off at 8:00 a.m. but was held on the ground for an hour and fifteen minutes to repair an unidentified mechanical problem, a travel agent familiar with the flight told WABC Radio.
Additionally, a United Airlines pilot says he over-heard a radio report from Flight 587's pilot saying he was experiencing engine trouble before the plane exploded in mid-air over New York's Jamaica Bay.
The Bush administration has announced the FBI believes that Flight 587 did explode in mid-air and is working to determine the cause.
By a freakish twist-of-date, this year Thanksgiving is _also_ the anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. If there _is_ a left wing element to the on-going terrorist activity in the US, they may make a point of this year's JFK anniversary...
Mark W.
"And while organized terrorism has not been ruled out, so far we have found no direct link to organized terrorism."- FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III
The fireball and the fact that the plane fell in multiple peices in different areas sure sounds like an explosion or bomb.
Should read:
Unfortunately, they're the same ones who didn't believe that the Florida anthrax case was an isolated incident as was officially reported for a while...
I have not speculated in the least. I merely ask that people base their comments on FACT. Your sources, oh mighty know-it-all?
As I type this, MY comments seem based on better information than yours. Now, back to work.
Yes it looks like this possibility is more likely than terrorism. I was convinced at first that it was terrorism given a number of coincidences...but coincidences do happen. I guess we will just have to wait until the investigators have enough evidence to make conclusive statements.
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