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Bomb Threat on Air France Flight
Momento 24 ^ | May 27, 2009

Posted on 06/02/2009 7:51:15 PM PDT by brytlea

The airport safety delayed an Air France flight this evening before departring for Paris immediately after the company received a bomb threat over the phone at the airport of Ezeiza.

(Excerpt) Read more at momento24.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airfrance; bomb; planecrash; tm; trop
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To: Verbosus
If it was a bomb, some group would have already claimed responsibility for it by now.

Or they'd repeat the act.

181 posted on 06/03/2009 8:45:01 AM PDT by riri
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To: Proud_USA_Republican

I think that’s close to the truth!


182 posted on 06/03/2009 8:46:06 AM PDT by rbosque (10 year Freeper!)
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To: Verbosus; Beaten Valve

If it was a “test” of some new type of bomb and timer device, with plans for future “placements” on other airplanes.... might there not be cause for keeping quiet and not claiming credit?

Just wondering here, as usual.


183 posted on 06/03/2009 8:46:08 AM PDT by jacquej
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To: Red in Blue PA

That’s right!
Unless a bomb stops it. ;-o


184 posted on 06/03/2009 8:47:02 AM PDT by rbosque (10 year Freeper!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
hmmm, makes ya wonder if perhaps the Air France flight that crashed yesterday might have been brought down by a bomb..of course, if that is the case, the media will NEVER report it

That one's going to be awfully hard to prove considering most of the wreckage is a mile underwater.

185 posted on 06/03/2009 8:59:56 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (We either Free America ourselves, or it is midnight for humanity for a thousand years.)
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To: calex59

Someone else said it was in 13000 feet of water — which would be deeper than 3000 meters (less than 10,000 feet)...


186 posted on 06/03/2009 9:18:50 AM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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To: ALASKA
I think it suggests a single plane coming apart at altitude and the debris spreading over a huge area as it falls. Lightening might POSSIBLY cause electrical failure, but not catastrophic failure of the entire craft.....

The one debris area they have reported is spread over three miles, which is about right for one aircraft. Two areas 35-40 miles apart is too far for one aircraft unless one part of it flew for 6 to 8 minutes longer than the other.

187 posted on 06/03/2009 10:42:18 AM PDT by zot
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To: Rutles4Ever
If there was a mid-air collision, certainly the families of the passengers on the other plane may have made some phone calls to find out why it hasn't arrived yet.

Good point if it was a passenger aircraft, but there are a lot of other aircraft.

188 posted on 06/03/2009 10:45:43 AM PDT by zot
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To: brytlea
Two aircraft? I had not heard of that possibility. If the plane broke in two (for whatever reason) could you still get 2 debris fields that far apart? Wish I had paid more attention in physics...

I suggested it as a possibility because it isn't likely that one part of one aircraft would fly for 5-8 minutes longer than the other part without any more automatic radio transmissions.

189 posted on 06/03/2009 10:49:39 AM PDT by zot
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To: zot

I just simply don’t have a clue, but I am trying to have an open mind. :)


190 posted on 06/03/2009 10:50:53 AM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: zot

Flying at that altitude??


191 posted on 06/03/2009 10:55:10 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever (Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna!)
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To: zot

Flying at that altitude??


192 posted on 06/03/2009 10:55:25 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever (Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna!)
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To: hercuroc

Hope they have a ocean exploration robot sub heading there now. If they have a signal, the robot can find it and retrieve it. Robot might get some photos of the wreckage while it is at it that might prove useful for investigators.

Lomg-term, robot might even be able to retrieve some passenger remains, but that would be a stroke of luck to find any after such a crash, which would likely spread remains over a wide area full of creatures already feeding on them.


193 posted on 06/03/2009 10:57:25 AM PDT by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: Rutles4Ever

An aircraft flying at 35,000 feet altitude could glide 35 miles, but not in pieces.


194 posted on 06/03/2009 11:45:46 AM PDT by zot
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To: brytlea
VIDEO:Plane crash: Debris belongs to Air France jet Something tells me the way that the debris is scattered the possibility of a terrorist threat/ bomb cannot be denied.
195 posted on 06/03/2009 1:29:05 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: Sarah Barracuda

heck, I’m surprised the HEADLINE of the breaking news story when the plane was first reported missing WASN’T
“Air France Jet Missing. Terrorism NOT Suspected.”


196 posted on 06/03/2009 1:32:49 PM PDT by a real Sheila (We will have a "Quadrillion" dollar debt when Obama's time is up!)
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To: a real Sheila; All

I’m sorry but this plane did not come down as a result of a bomb.

Some of the information coming out about the ACARS message exchange with AF maintenance center seems similar to those given by a Qantas Airbus in December.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0UBT/is_2_23/ai_n31189475/

I think we have a design/computer error that led to this aircraft’s autopilot disengaging and the pilots losing control (especially considering the time and atmospheric circumstances).

Also from the article:

“On Oct. 7, 2008, 70 of the 313 people onboard a Qantas A330 (also flying from Singapore to Perth) were injured when the aircraft pitched up and then dove twice after a failure of its ADIRU 1.

Australian air safety investigators said a fault in one of three Northrop Grumman air data inertial reference units is likely to have caused the Qantas A330-300 upset.

Flight QF72 from Singapore to Perth abruptly lost altitude. The A330 made an emergency landing in Manila. The ATSB said in its preliminary report, citing flight data recorder information, that the ADIRU likely fed incorrect information to the main flight computer.”

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Uhm, we have a problem.


197 posted on 06/03/2009 2:35:49 PM PDT by VaBthang4 (Too many FReepers whine too damn much. Your kneejerk contrarianism is not Conservative.)
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To: VaBthang4

So the bomb threat means nothing?


198 posted on 06/03/2009 2:37:24 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

Nothing.


199 posted on 06/03/2009 2:53:15 PM PDT by VaBthang4 (Too many FReepers whine too damn much. Your kneejerk contrarianism is not Conservative.)
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To: brytlea

“the boxes emit thru water up to about a mile “

I also heard this on Fox News last night. I rather doubt the boxes will be found. If the Fox report was correct, then a receiver will have to be lowered 2 miles into the ocean. Lot of ocean to cover,,,,,,,,


200 posted on 06/03/2009 2:55:32 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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