Boats Resume Search for Bodies From Plane Crash; Switzerland Says It Banned Airline a Year Ago

Associated Press ^ | Jan 4, 2004 | Salah Nasrawi

[thesummerwind]

Just a good guess.......terrorism. But, we'll never know though.

Flight 587, Flight 800, .........

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[BenLurkin]

It is going to be a tough investigation, I suspect, for a number of reasons.

[Prodigal Son]

What was significant about the Moroccan? (he was bolded)

2600 feet of water is quite deep. Hard to recover anything from there.

[csvset]

"A series of safety shortcomings showed up in a plane of Flash Airlines during a routine security check at Zurich Airport in October 2002,"

Ah, an airplane equivalent of a hoopty.

[mewzilla]

Wasn't Blair vacationing in Sharm-el-Sheik at the time?

[FreedomPoster]

Is the plane in Egyptian waters, or offshore far enough to be in international waters?

I can't imagine the Egyptians would let us send down anything that might be able to bring up the black boxes. This will be just like the Egypt Air flight that the jihadi pilot augered in, and the Egyptians totally denied it, despite pretty incontrovertible evidence from the black boxes.

[OXENinFLA]

IMO flight 587, 1st shoe bomber.

[LiberationIT]

I guess the French aviation authorities had all been diverted to emergency heat wave duty and were unable to check out Flash as the Swiss had done.

Jacques C.? Where are you? We'd love to hear from you on this one.

[eno_]

It was difficult to get press reports, but think the answer is "Yes." And if you believe we don't have a tightly managed press, look at the complete lack of stories that go "PM Blair, do you think this was terrorism since it happened within sight of your vacation residence?"

[eno_]

There have been conflicting reports of the depth of water, from 6000 feet to 500 feet. It keeps getting shallower, much in the way the "heavy fog" reported at the time of the crash (have these morons never heard of Web cams?) dissappeared.

If we have another pilot shouting "Allah akbar!" as he dives a plane into the sea, I wonder if those final minuted of CVR will be "garbled."

[thesummerwind]

It is going to be a tough investigation

"tough" --- what do you mean? "Tough" as 'in depth', honest, and competent investigation, or "tough" as in tough to get to any truth, or as in coverup?

[verity]

"The airline has been banned from entering or flying over Switzerland since October 2002"

?

[thesummerwind]

IMO flight 587, 1st shoe bomber.

Yep, looked like it to the first N.Y. witness reports of the explosion near the middle of the plane.

To me there is little doubt what happened here. But there will soon be the guys coming on this thread who will pose as the level-headed, don't jump to conclusions pseudo-adults, imploring that all those who dare suggest that indications seem that the crash could be caused by terrorism are nutballs.

I've seen this before, immediate declarations by governments involved that it was mechanical trouble, and those declarations have usually been the first steps in the old coverup game. Oh well, let them lie.

[OXENinFLA]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1051071/posts

'Something's happening to the flight' she said. Then there were screams...

Security around the Prime Minister was immediately stepped up as the Blairs ended their Christmas and New Year break. The disaster happened hours before Cherie Blair and her four children were due to fly home to London using the airport from which the crashed plane departed.

--------- Seen this?

[thesummerwind]

And if you believe we don't have a tightly managed press, look at the complete lack of stories that go "PM Blair, do you think this was terrorism since it happened within sight of your vacation residence?"

Yep.

I find the lack of CURIOSITY shown in the (lack of)reporting of this (especially by FoxNews) odd and appalling. Do you suppose FoxNews is in the 'we have no questions/no terrorism cause camp', because they don't want to promote the terrorism angle in order to protect G.W. Just asking.

But, the coverage of this story is very "directed" by somebody, for sure. Being a news junkie, I've seen it before, and I know what I'm seeing.

[thesummerwind]

foreshadowing?

Love that screen name -- again! I might name my next daughter that. ;)

[verity]

Preferable to Connie Spiracy Summerwind :~)

[thesummerwind]

--------- Seen this?

Yep I have. I have studied probability and numbers for decades. These circumstances point more likely to terrorism, IMO. But no one will ever admit it. The cause will be something like that out of control food cart that barrelled forward to the cockpit door, broke through causing the plane to go out of control and into the drink........all this without a distress call. Sounds good to me.