Posted on 08/25/2004 1:14:33 PM PDT by Shortwave
Date: August 26 2004
The pilot of one of two Russian planes that crashed almost simultaneously had sent a hijack alert, raising fears of a terrorist attack.
All 89 people on board the two passenger planes died.
(Excerpt) Read more at smh.com.au ...
Doesn't explain what happened to the first plane, tho.
Putin was KGB higher up. You'll be lucky to get any truthfulness from this comrade.
"All things being equal the most logical is correct. You are to tell me that two aircraft are going to crash almost simultaneously?"
As interesting will be to see how the american media treats this if the russians do deny anything bad happening, just accidents, etc.
I think some freepers greatly underestimate the ability of the media to doggedly tell a huge lie and stick to it, marginalizing all contradictory views. Given world events and the impending election in chechnya, if anyone here is able to 90% believe that these two crashes were accidents no matter what fantastic explanations are offered, they are more trusting than me.
> Put your Achems Razor hat on ...
One Russian airliner loss is usually an accident due
to incompetent maint, drunken pilot, overloading, etc.
Two within minutes raises Occam from his nap, and
suggests deliberate action.
> ... when the first plane went down it took out the
> second plane ...
Nope. Hundreds of miles apart.
I can't blame the Russians for wanting to cover this up. It would not only devastate their young economy, but have a rippling effect thru the rest of the airline industry.....looks like another TWA Flight 800 in the making.........
That must have been the Russian spelling......
It doesn't seem to hold up. They didn't find the wreckage of the second plane until a day later.
These events could be the result of terrorism, or poor aircraft maintenance by the Rooskies. Tough to tell at this point.
Achem is the Islamfascist terrorist spelling, isn't it?
Flight 800? Huh? I was in the Coast Guard and read the report very carefully. I went to all the debriefs for the crash. It was not a terrorist act. That plane was mechanically doomed. Please, I beg you, don't reset Pierre Salinger!
If it's terrorism, doesn't one or more Muslim groups eventually claim 'credit' for it?
That's only fair, I guess. The Russians are probably still laughing at the official explanation for the cause of the TWA Flight 800 crash.
"That's my reasoning, but I may be all wet too....."
I don't recall AQ claiming responsability for the 9/11/01 hijackings for months afterwards. I personally believe that they have figured out that when governments CAN deny there was an attack/hijacking, they will, so the attacks have to be spectacular to for the involved government to concede it occured.
There was an egyptian air flight that the pilot suicided...could it have been terrorism?
There is considerable doubt about the flight tw800 investigation, and some about AA587.
If the shoe bomber on that transatlantic flight had been successful, would we ever have known it was terrorism?
Now two planes BLOW UP a few minutes apart, and we may actually be told it isn't terrorism. If so, expect the report of the hijack transponder code to quietly become an early error.
It was just an observation......the conspiracy theoristas will have a heyday with this....
This is very efficient on the Russia's part. Deny any link to terrorism one day after the crash and get it over with. By making the lie so obvious it doesn't seem as deceptive.
Achmed's Razor = If it looks like terrorism, it probably is terrorism
Not always, no.
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