| I'm leaning more bomb than either sabotage or cat. engine failure.
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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.
A 50 caliber shot straight head on into the spinning turbine blades is all it would take, believe me.
Titanium turbine blade spinning at a gazillion RPM are NOT made to take 50 caliber rounds in stride.
Frozen chickens?
I have been fearful of this possibility for decades. Take-offs would be more vulnerable than landings. In fact, I believe it could be accomplished with a good hunting rifle.
| I'm leaning more bomb than either sabotage or cat. engine failure.
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Yes they were just a little too quick to say this was only an accident. Either way, I'm not flying. If a terrorist doesn't get you, a poorly maintained plane will.
Out here is Southern Cali on KFI 640 talk they have an "aviation expert" and he said the entire thing is troubling (read not possible under known scenarios). Espesically, the part about the tail rudder being left on the runway (read bomb). He said he did not now of a scenario that would do the type of damage that occurred including catastrophic engine failure.
Some witnesses have said that parts of the wing came off and hit the tail. The flaps on an A300 are huge and are a possibility. This is starting to sound like a one in a million accident. The Bush Administration must have more info than we do because they reopened the airports fairly quickly, they didn't ground departing flights, and no other planes went down, which I would have expected if it was terrorism.
I wonder if they've accounted for all the maintenance workers especially the Muslim ones, or if there were any "new" guys working who didn't show back up to work today.
That fact is far more reassuring than any blather from the NTSB. If the FAA grounds all airliners with the CF-6 in the next few days, I think we can conclude that this was probably mechanical failure.
That's it! THAT'S IT! The same thing that happened to TWA Fl. 800! Now to find that frayed wire that caused the spark that caused the APU to blow up...
By the way, that architect was asked by some jack**s reporter
why didn't the buildings stand up?
He answered why did they stand for as long as they did?
That singular fact probably saved 20,000 lives.
"Conspiracy theorists" (formerly known on occasion as "investigative reporters," "critical thinkers," "informed citizenry," "seekers of the truth," etc.) should not be listened to on this matter. The government has stated that this is all just a terrible accident, a horrendous coincidence, a one-in-a-million-case-of-bad-luck, and however implausible, contradictory or even mendacious that position is, it is our duty as Americans to repeat it and maintain it, in order to sustain our economy, our national morale, and the people's faith in their leaders. Amen.
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It's starting to sound to me like a re-run of the Concorde accident: tire picks up runway debris and hurls it into the wing, fracturing it and starting a fuel leak... fire ensues... piece of wing shears off and takes out the tail, per witness. End of airplane.