Posted on 11/12/2001 12:18:32 PM PST by Steven W.
Gov. Pataki is reporting that the pilot of the ill-fated American Airlines flight dumped most of the airplane's fuel over Jamaica Bay, anticipating a crash landing and most likely indicating a trained response to onboard mechanical failures.
Look at the bright side: the more she shows her face, the more she "Jessies" the cameras, the fewer votes she'll get when she runs for president. <p Don't complain when she overdoes things, be grateful!
Ala TWA 800 "investigation"
This does not bode well for Pataki being able to tell anything truthful about this flight if he is getting the info through Kaalstrom.
(The Kaalstrom hire was reported here on Free Republic - but don't have a link to the article that reported it).
He should be totally ignored by Pataki and the Mayor and by President Bush because he is there either to coverup events (his expertise) OR to feed info back to his payoff bosses (the Clinton Crime gang).
The fact that Pataki hired Kaalstrom reveals that the Republicans in New York State (sorry to say this) are either on the Rat payroll OR are totally clueless about what has gone on the past eight years.
All we need now is to hear the former CHIEF LIAR - NTSB chairman Jim whatever his name was - to confirm this was not a terrorist event - and I will be convinced the LIARS are back in charge.
Up to this point, President Bush's FBI team has been forthcoming with facts as soon as they knew them. I hope that record continues and no coverups of truth - no matter how ugly they be - occur re: this crash or any other "events".
Maddengly - the anthrax scare being diagnosed by the FBI as not related to the terrorists who were living/working in Florida right near Mr. Stevens or to the Trenton NJ terrorists who lived/worked near where some of the Anthrax victims lived - seems to lead one to conclude that the same old Clinton killers are in charge at the FBI investigating offices.
Message to Pataki and to anyone in President Bush's administration who want to get to the truth about this crash:
DO NOT USE OR LISTEN TO ANY OF THE AGENTS WHO HANDLED THE TWA800 FLIGHT CRASH AND WHO DIAGNOSED IT AS CENTER FUEL TANK. ANYONE IN THAT GROUP HAS PROVEN THEMSELVES TOTALLY UNWORTHY OF TRUST - ESPECIALLY KAALSTROM!
While a 12' target at 1760 yards is within the realm of a match grade .50 caliber bench rest rifle, the odds of making that shot are greatly reduced when you factor that the target is Moving at High Speed and add to that the odds of a shooter being directly on the centerline of the intake.
right_to_defend: Yes, it makes sense to me. I always figured a SAM was necessary to bring down a jet. But if you can buy a rifle in K-Mart that can do it, I'm almost surprised it hasn't happened before.
Are you sure your not Dianne Feinstein ?
All this talk of a shooter is wild speculation and is playing into the hands of HCI and the anit-gun lobby.
"I just saw a video clip of the recovery of the "wing" on the local CBS affiliate. It was the vertical stabilizer unless AA has put their logo on the wing along with the US Flag."
My that was subtle.
Spinning out of control....
They'll continue with this "accident" line of reporting. They don't want the airline industry biting the dust!
First thing I thought when I heard the news this morning was, "uncontained engine failure"--it sounded like the engine must've swallowed a blade, blown itself up, and separated from the wing, making the plane stall and crash. Now I'm not so sure, not by a long shot.
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Maybe so. Dunno. Maybe more than the wing went in the bay. Rudy said the wing was observable on the bottom.
Once you lose your vertical stabilizer, any pitch control is gone. Here, from my friend at Airborne, from Avsig:
"Looks like the vertical stabilizer was found some distance from the fuselage. With an engine out (missing) and no vertical stab it's not surprising that they lost control. What I want to know now is how the vertical stab became detached. All I can think of is the departing engine might have hit the vertical stabilizer but the pictures of the stab didn't show any signs of such an impact."
A CNN reporter, I think it was, had interviewed in Egypt the son of an Air Egypt pilot who had flown the plane west (he wasn't on the plane when it crashed, as I recall,) and that son was the one who mentioned he had spoken on the phone with his father, who was then at Edwards. I don't think confusion over the airport designator is likely to have been responsible for a mistake by the son on where his father was. Plus, the media, in shutting down all discussion of Edwards a couple of hours after the crash, behaved the way they do when they are hiding something.
I'm sure I heard on FoxNews earlier today something like "eyewitness reports aren't always accurate" . . . and I thought to myself, uh huh, they're setting up their own version . . . . Anyone else hear that?
http://www.airdisaster.com/special/special-aa191.shtml
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