Posted on 01/30/2007 3:22:10 AM PST by kellynla
No, I didn't. I do remember that Weldon was being dismissed as a kook earlier last year. I didn't follow his election battle but I did see Sestak on C-SPAN as a guest soon after the election. I was impressed with his credentials and his demeanor. Sounds like there's another side to his ability as an Admiral, according to some of his peers.
You are not mistaken.
Thx. I'm at my best between five and seven in the morning. I'm melting now.
FYI- ping
Washington has so much insider deals today. Party lines are blurred when the cameras are off.
It was Egyptair 990, a Boeing 767-300 heading from Kennedy to Cairo, and it was in the 1997-1997 timeframe.
The NTSB pieced together, from physical wreckage, radar tapes from the New York ARTCC, and the plane's recorders, that the relief pilot (who was a very senior pilot with Egyptair) managed to get himself alone in the cockpit by the ruse of sending the copilot back to give a pen to the captain. (Long international flights have to carry two flightcrews--this guy was supposed to fly the plane over the Atlantic and turn it back over to the designated captain for landing in Cairo.)
When he got alone in the cockpit, he disengaged the autopilot, pulled the throttles back to idle, and pushed the controls forward, quietly chanting something like "I believe in Allah". The captain rushed back to the cockpit, and not knowing what was going on, jumped in the other seat and started pulling the plane up and yelling "pull with me, pull with me." He didn't realize that the suicidal guy was pushing the yoke forward. Then the suicidal one cut the power to the engines, which stopped the flight recorders. Radar info after that showed the plane pulling out of the dive, then diving again into the sea.
The NTSB figured this out because they found indications that one control yoke was being pushed forward and the other pulled backward at the same time. So they ruled that the relief pilot intentionally crashed the plane for reasons unknown.
The Egyptian government angrily denied the NTSB's findings and tried to pin the crash on a design fault--Boeing convincingly shot that down quickly.
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"# Roger C. Altman
# Thomas J. Donohue
# Craig L. Fuller
# Lee Hamilton
# Warren Rudman"
... and now another Clinton is heading for the White House. This stuff will be buried even further as the first Clinton Legacy is ironed out and sanitized for the history books.
You can bet the ranch that those FBI files are still arriving on a regular basis. The Klinton's have evildoers buried in ALL our institutions.
Ping.
When does coincidence become conspiracy?
*edit above: should be "1997-1998." Leadpenny may be at his best between 5-7 am, but I'm not. :)
I have real trouble with the missile theory on TWA 800, simply because out of all the hundreds and hundreds of people on those Navy ships--not the senior brass, but the enlisted men, the 19- and 20-year-olds--not a single one ever came forward? How could an incredible accident like this NOT leak out? Not a single one of those young kids on the bridge, or in the CIC, or handling missiles, or even swabbing the decks, heard or saw some of what happened and decided to risk it all to come out with the news?
I don't know what happened with TWA 800. The center fuel tank explosion theory seems incredibly weak, but if it really was shot down by an American missile, I can't see how somebody wouldn't eventually leak it. That leaves a terrorist missile, and the plane was out of the envelope for engagement by a shoulder-fired IR surface-to-air missile.
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Tony Lake is so poorly regarded that slick willie had to give him a position that did not require senate confirmation. Nevertheless you can be sure that Ickes, Lake, and assorted other America haters are doing their dirty work every day.
It's not just Pennsylvania that suffers with the loss of these two American heroes, it all of us.
Talk about connecting the dots. I knew he was behind Sestak but the details here are astounding.
I may make a trip to Washington just to burn my copy of the 911 report in front of the Capitol.
Weldon was my Congressman and I took his defeat hard. It makes me sick that the Clinton machine was able to unseat him so easily.
I remember reading the guy had lots of family problems, mostly stemming from the fact he failed an upgrade attempt to captain.
That is true, but it is Pennsylvania voters that did the deed.
But Sandy has put his life in danger by being the only person who could reveal the truth.I expect his accidental death any day now.
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