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To: Beach_Babe
because that tail just didn’t fall off.

And your evidence is?

Actually, since the Airbus tail is a composite structure, in which it is impossible to detect abnormalities, it wouldn't surprise me in the least that it "just fell off".

Carbon fiber is some neat stuff. But there are some big problems with it in airplanes. Things like contamination between layers can cause failures, and the problem cannot be found without testing the part by breaking it.

I'll join the conspiracy train with regard to TWA800 with all the witnesses who saw a missle. But this one looks easy. Tail fell off. Plane crashed. oops.

The fact that they've found other Airbus tails that have delamination problems ought to scare you more about a coverup. A coverup about unsafe French airplanes. Like the coverup of the Boeing 737 rudder problem that caused three crashes, where they recently had a quiet replacement of some rudder control parts and didn't connect it with any previous crashes. Sure.

11 posted on 12/06/2002 5:10:03 PM PST by narby
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To: narby
Actually, since the Airbus tail is a composite structure, in which it is impossible to detect abnormalities, it wouldn't surprise me in the least that it "just fell off".

Im with you on this, Nobody really seems to know how long one will last under long term strain.

But the wittneses seem to state they saw an explosion where the wing meets the FL. So it makes it that more complicated,.... I hope the evidence comes out soon....
12 posted on 12/06/2002 5:20:13 PM PST by cmsgop
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To: narby
So in the face of eyewitness accounts of smoking-gun evidence of a shoe bomb or baggage bomb, you're talking about the cheapFrenchplastictail theory. Why don't you throw in thrust reverser (discredited), old engine (discredited), bird strike (discredited), wake turbulence (discredited), pilot harsh on the controls (discredited), cheese (not ripe enough), or any of the other trial balloons lofted by shills like you?
15 posted on 12/06/2002 5:41:40 PM PST by eno_
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To: narby
Why I don't agree with you that the tail "just fell off"

For a solid week before this incident The Feds were telling us all to watch for "something big". Well something big happened and within 12 hours the Feds were calling it an accident.

Numerous sober minded witnesses told local news teams (I am local to that area and may have seen coverage that you did not) that they heard an explosion, looked up and saw flames before the plane crashed. These people were on the spot eyewitnesses, many of whom were NYPD and FDNY current or retired personnel, not the sort to mis-report.

If the tail just fell off why were the hundreds of other craft in the airbus fleet immediately grounded? UPS uses these craft in the hundreds.

Bottom line, I'm not buying it.

35 posted on 01/14/2003 1:47:04 PM PST by wtc911
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