Posted on 11/12/2007 8:22:01 PM PST by RDTF
QUEENS (CBS) ― Monday marks the sixth anniversary of the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in Queens.
The plane crash on Nov. 12, 2001, killed 260 people on board and five people in the quiet neighborhood of Belle Harbor.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg dedicated a memorial for the crash in Belle Harbor Monday morning.
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The crash further rattled a city still shaken by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center just two months earlier.
The plane had left John F. Kennedy International Airport bound for the Dominican Republic. Many of the victims lived in the heavily Dominican Washington Heights neighborhood in Manhattan.
The National Transportation Safety Board determined the tail of the Airbus A300 had fallen off. It blamed pilot error, inadequate pilot training and overly sensitive rudder controls.
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I wonder if the Troofers have any thoughts on it.
It wasn't really a plane; it was a missile. The passengers are prisoners on Madagascar, being brainwashed by the Bush administration to become evil CIA agents. Ron Paul will save the day!
Brought down by a secret CIA death ray because several of the passengers were about to blow the whistle on the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld plot to.....
Well,you know.
Your fake theories make more sense than that stupid Loose Change “film.” :-)
Here is a “Coast-to-Coast” style theory:
The plane suffered from an interdimensional cross-rift that was an aftershock of the Philadelphia Experiment.
Prayers for those who were lost.
Aluminum tin foil hat Ping
Stall spin.
So..........what? how many people have died in car crashes since then? I’ll sleep just fine tonight.
always seemed starnge to me too.
Tail falls off = pilot error?
starnge = strange
That would be one big error. Must’ve been a dumb pilot.
Oh, I see. It was only 200 +
After TWA800, I would not believe anything that the govt. says about such an incident. In fact between the two, it appears that there is more liklihood of a connection than not!
It is possible for the pilot to operate the controls in such a manner as to stress portions of the aircraft beyond design limits. As I recall the NTSB determined the crew had responded poorly to a series of things and in the process stressed the tail section beyond what it was supposed to withstand.
I know it sounds implausible, but there are all sorts of very powerful forces at work when an aircraft is in the air, especially one as big and heavy as this aircraft.
It’s not uncommon for witnesses to report a plane falling in pieces from the overcast after getting caught in instrument conditions and the pilot not being able to control the aircraft without reference to the ground.
I remember thinking this was 9/11 redux the morning it happened.
IIRC the tail wasn't made of metal. One would think that the controls should have been designed in such a way that no matter how they were used, it wouldn't make the plane fall apart.
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