Posted on 11/23/2001 1:41:24 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK
My opinion is that it was not a terrorist attack, but that they convinced enquiring Congress Critters that it was. The lack of reaction by naval vessels in the area, and the position of the triangulated firing sites well outside of the area where flights could be expected to be within range, would preclude a terrorist attack with MANPADS. The friendly fire explanations are more logical.
Darn.
You apparently have me confused with somebody else who may have taken issue with this particular point.
Unless you can find a specific post on a thread here at FR you are either:
Similar engines/engine designs in similar applications (climate/aircraft use) require/can use similar specified, approved types of fuel ... unless you have experience working for an engine manufacturer like GE, Rolls Royce or Pratt and Whitney I'm not going to pay you much mind on this particular subject ...
"selectively kills"?
AIDS will kill anyone and anyone who engages in needle sharing or other high risk activity (won't describe, too gross) is sooner or later going to die from it.
Probably strictly for the boyds. What is "J.D", anyway? But must have this flowchart for my MIB wall :)).
To get rid of faggots - well maybe.
Not if they're encased in a two-inch layer of tinfoil. Actually, that will stop not only needle sharing but also any other contamination.
Well, _Jim do you have the above experience?
If not, why should anyone pay your posts any attention?
The difference here is, I will either do the research, consult and defer to those who *do* have the experience and background and have done the research or I will keep quiet on the particular subject about which I have not yet studied ...
All concepts foreign to the tin-foilers who have neither the time, the will power, or the mind to do any of those things.
If this is supposed to mean that they could have used JP-4 in Flight 800, they didn't. The NTSB would not have spent $40 million dollars trying to get Jet A to explode under the conditions they stated were involved in the crash, if it had been using the more volatile JP-4. They failed to make it happen and instead blew up the tank using hydrogen gas and propane to start the reaction, with a spark 63,000 times the energy of the spark they stated in their report would be sufficient.
If the center tank was the initiating event as stated, why do the scorch marks end at the break in the fuselage? Why were none of the bodies burned, but 89 had shrapnel removed, and then confiscsated by the FBI? Why was a portion of the front wing spar CW504 found in the earliest debris field, while the portions of crossbeam #3 were found with the CWT in the final debris? On the 747-131 model the CWT ended at crossbeam #3, and the front wing spar was in front of a maintenance walkway, with no fuel behind it. When this plane was hit by lightning in June of 1995 in Rome, why didn't the faulty wiring cause the CWT to explode then, since it took them a week to repair the wing damage then? What caused the external to internal punctures of the CWT at speeds exceeding 1000 ft/sec by small objects, and why would that not be considered a probable cause of the CWT explosion? Why did early photos of the wreckage show the fuel tank floor had been pushed upward by 7 feet, and later photos show it having been pounded back down? (Senate testimony indicates that metal portions of the plane were being pounded into place.)
_Jim, I really don't care if you aren't going to pay me much mind, since you don't have much to spare. I would appreciate it if you didn't expound on subjects with which you are not familiar.
Not to mention, the pro-government sheeple who buy the government line on TWA 800 deserve tin foil hats with propeller tops. Seriously, one has to be way out there to think the government is saying the truth about it, unless one is highly uninformed.
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