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1 posted on 06/30/2007 7:46:03 AM PDT by Hal1950
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To: Hal1950
Flight 800 was a tragedy, but to knowingly let it happen again would be an even greater tragedy

Yep, glad they got right to it... eleven years later. Or do they know something CNN hasn't told us about the crash?

2 posted on 06/30/2007 7:50:26 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: Hal1950
Nearly 11 years after a fuel tank exploded on TWA Flight 800, killing 230 people off the South Shore of Long Island, a congressional committee voted yesterday to force the Federal Aviation Administration to act to prevent similar explosions.

Exactly how many "similar explosions" have there been since TWA-800? Hmmmm.

3 posted on 06/30/2007 7:50:49 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Once a conservative Republican; now only a conservative.)
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To: Hal1950
"There have been two other accidents involving fuel tank explosions"

When? Where? What were the circumstances?

4 posted on 06/30/2007 7:57:04 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Hal1950

Who would have thought that inerting fuel tanks would prevent attack of passenger aircraft by surface-to-air missiles?


6 posted on 06/30/2007 8:03:42 AM PDT by coloradan (Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
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To: Hal1950

Correction: Nearly 11 years after TWA Flight 800 was shot down by a terrorist missile,


7 posted on 06/30/2007 8:04:08 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
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To: Hal1950

Rep. Tim Bishop (D-Southampton) - Koolaid drinker. Bet he’d like to buy a bridge, too.


9 posted on 06/30/2007 8:26:16 AM PDT by upchuck (If you don't have borders, you won't have a nation ~ Mark Steyn)
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