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.
/john
Maybe the "witnesses" supporting Mumia were right!
Well, I would think a hole would require some explaing!
| Model | Rate | Flights | FLE* | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airbus A300 | 0.78 | 7.7M | 5.99 | 9 |
| Airbus A310 | 1.59 | 2.9M | 4.62 | 5 |
| Airbus A320 | 0.38 | 7.3M | 2.61 | 5 |
| ATR | 0.94 | 3.2M | 3.00 | 3 |
| Boeing 727 | 0.49 | 72.2M | 35.34 | 46 |
| Boeing 737-100/200 | 0.52 | 50.4M | 26.29 | 37 |
| Boeing 737-300/400/500 | 0.28 | 30.8M | 8.76 | 10 |
| Boeing 737 (all models) | 0.43 | 81.2M | 35.05 | 47 |
| Boeing 747 | 0.97 | 13.1M | 12.73 | 25 |
| Boeing 757 | 0.62 | 8.7M | 5.4 | 7 |
| Boeing 767 | 0.65 | 7.3M | 4.73 | 5 |
| Boeing 777 | 0.00 | 0.7M | 0.00 | 0 |
| Boeing DC9 | 0.59 | 58.1M | 34.41 | 42 |
| Boeing DC10 | 0.76 | 7.8M | 5.91 | 15 |
| Boeing MD11 | 1.27 | 0.8M | 1.02 | 3 |
| Boeing MD80/MD90 | 0.22 | 23.3M | 5.19 | 9 |
| British Aerospace BAe 146 | 0.52 | 5.4M | 2.81 | 4 |
| British Aerospace Jetstream | UNK | UNK | 5.22 | 6 |
| Concorde | 12.5 | 0.08M | 1.00 | 1 |
| Dornier 228 | UNK | UNK | 6.88 | 7 |
| Dornier 328 | UNK | UNK | 0.11 | 1 |
| Embraer Bandeirante | 3.07 | 7.5M | 23.00 | 28 |
| Embraer Brasilia | 0.58 | 7.4M | 4.27 | 5 |
| Fokker F28 | 1.78 | 8.1M | 14.45 | 20 |
| Fokker F70/F100 | 0.49 | 3.8M | 1.87 | 4 |
| Lockheed L1011 | 0.49 | 5.2M | 2.54 | 5 |
| Saab 340 | 0.22 | 9.7M | 2.10 | 3 |
Yes, I heard something like that, as well. Don't remember the exact words, but you got the flavor nailed. And I think they're all spinning.
I agree with all who are SICK SICK SICK of her UGLY MUG. She and BJ are nothing more than opportunists. Shudder
Are you kidding me? Clean shaven and not wearing a turban most middle easterners look white to me. Until they start speaking with a heavy accent of course.
So in order to err on the side of caution, we have put our ICBMs on Red Alert.(Mecca, Medina, Bagdad, Cairo)
Remember the Taliban threat of planes falling from the skies?
You said: Well, I would think a hole would require some explaing!
FYI: I was replying to post #161, which in full said:
Paul Czysz, an aviation specialist at Parks College of St. Louis University, said the circular hole in the side of an engine that fell from the doomed airliner is suspicious. Czysz said jet engines of the type on the A-300 are designed to contain any debris from a turbine blade failure. In a catastrophic, uncontained failure involving sheared turbine blades, he said, there likely would be more engine damage than apparent in the engine on the ground.
Cyzsz said that if the engine had fallen from the plane as a result of failure in its attachment bolts, he also would expect to see more substantial damage than was apparent in pictures of the engine on the ground.
If they'll fly themselves into a building knowing that they'll surely die, why wouldn't they blow up a plane using their luggage? The NTSB's "logic" on this one isn't anywhere near logical.
"Our maintainance department could not find a schematic showing a fuel dump system. He did mention that the A300-600 that we fly has a fuel tank in the horizontal stab.
Also, some of the film that I've seen that shows a large piece of wreckage looks very much like the tail of the airplane There is a cut-out that appears to me to be for the stab. The stab cut-out and the shereical rear pressure bulkhead is what identifies that hunk of metal. I would assume from that that the CVR and FDR will be in good shape as that area of the airplane did not appear to have been subjected to high stress/heat."
FWIW.
How right you are. Like saying death was caused by heart failure - that's what all death is. Your hearts stops, you die . . .
Precisely ;-) Now that I would stand up and applaud.
I watched the coverage all day today, and there is just too much that doesn't add up.
The most important detail that sticks in my teeny cranium is that as soon as Neil Cavuto on Fox noticed that the stock market was tanking in response to the news, (and this was about 20 minutes after the plane went down), he started the cheerleading for "just a horrible accident, folks, no reason to suspecct anything more"... and the momentum built from there, and got even more ridiculous as the day wore on!
I am so depressed tonight that even this administration can't tell us the straight truth that I could just spit.
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