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Posted on 12/02/2005 8:15:04 AM PST by Esther Ruth
Pilot Reports 'Missile' Fired at Jetliner Near LAX (11/28/05)
FBI agents and Homeland Security officials spent the weekend investigating the report of a possible missile fired at an American Airlines plane taking off from Los Angeles International Airport. Sources tell ABC News the pilot of American Airlines Flight 621, en route to Chicago, radioed air traffic controllers after takeoff from LAX. He told them a missile had been fired at the aircraft and missed.
The plane was over water when the pilot said he saw a smoke trail pass by the cockpit.
FBI agents believe it was a flare or a bottle rocket, but say they may never know if that's what it actually was.
Must be an industrial-strength bottle rocket.
Could a pilot really see the smoke trail of a bottle rocket????
wouldn't this be captured by radar and analyzed?
So why do we hear about this from a Philadelphia radio station?
Note it was not the pilot that called it a flare or bottle rocket.
This pilot needs his eyes checked. What he clearly saw was a spark in the center fuel tank.
Sure they could see the smoke trail from a bottle rocket......if the bottle was the size of a shoulder held SAM
Yeah, we've been talking about it since a few of us actually heard the initial radio broadcast this past Monday morning.
Check out the thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1529700/posts
Probably the same bottle rocket that the government swears that hundreds of people didn't see going after TWA 800.
Can they bring Kallstrom (sp) back from retirement to explain this.
I know and as I say on all such threads those in authority don't want to panic the public and give the terriorist a victory. So we pretend all of these incidents whether they are are not are not attacks.
The airline pilot noticed it when he was over the water?
Either the bottle rocket was sea based or was a pretty strong one, eh?
you shouldn't have heard it at all.
True, pilot prolly not very bright, saw cob web on the windshield.
Damn kids!
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