Posted on 11/12/2001 7:06:29 AM PST by dep
Not quite. 1000 feet/second is 60,000 feet/minute. There are 5,280 feet in a mile. Rounding it down to 5,000, sound would be 12 miles/minute. Multiply that by 60 minutes and you get 720 miles/hour (not 300mph).
Actually, there's tons of preliminary evidence that it was a bomb and absolutely no preliminary evidence that it was an accident.
These people had better not dare to start to cover this up.
Scads of people saw and explosion and the engine and debris fall off, there is video footage of the engine lying on the ground intact away from the crash site.
The strange thing is that the Administration, at least, is saying they have no evidence one way or the other while the usual suspects say all the usual preposterous things.
It's obvious to anyone who isn't an idiot, that looks at the scene either in r/l or via tv. The plane exploded in mid-air. It's either an accident or a terrorist attack but they shouldn't rule out terrorism so fast especially when that's most likely what it was. Nor should they lie to us. Only an idiot would think that the plane hit the ground before it exploded and would discount eye witness accounts.
This is horsesh*t. With NO evidence to the contrary the assumption should that the crash was the result of terrorism not vice versa. This is the most prudent assumption and errors on the side of caution. If you find out that it was a mechanical failure later (many months maybe down the road) then no harm. In the meantimes we should be redouble our airplane security efforts and our efforts to destroy terrorist EVERYWHERE!
The powers that be should be less concerned with the immediate (perhaps irreversable) economic damage that this crash is going to cause (espescially if it is proven it was a terrorist act) and more concerned with the immidiate threat to all of our lives.
Somebody in the White House had better stop this ridiculousness quickly, otherwise the percentage of Americans who still trust the Government will be reduced to zero.
How does it help the airline industry if people are led to believe that, in addition to possible terrorist attack, the flying public should also be prepared for engines falling off for no particular reason?
It is 11/12/01
what means.
Hopefully that will work. If not, I said "rant off".
How about me? I'm a slacker.
But what makes so sense to me is that the government can't see the distrust they are bringing upon themselves.
Do they think that the majority of the American public are that stupid? Or is the government targeting the helpless demonrats that believe everything the government tells them?
But you are right, regardless of whether it's a terrorist attack or engines falling off, it still hurts the already struggling airline industry.
I won't fly again for a very long time, if ever, and part of the reason for that is that I won't know how safe the airlines really are because the government is lying about too much and the government isn't allowing the pilots and qualified passengers to fly armed AND we still have lots of the Islamic terrorists in our country and many of them work at the airports as pilots and menial labor and can plant bombs and other weapons of terror on the planes.
the bit about the pilot dumping fuel does not make sense given how quickly this unfolded. The fuel in Jamaica Bay is easily explained by the detached wing section, the explosion, and dispersing fuel. Time of day is troubling here. maximum exposure. Maximum impact....
Thanks in advance. :)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 13 —A spokesman for Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network vowed Sunday to wage new attacks against U.S. and British interests. “We also advise Americans and Britons, especially Muslims, children and all those who oppose U.S. policy, not to ride planes or live in high buildings,” said spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith. The White House dismissed the latest threat as “propaganda.”
IN A STATEMENT broadcast on Qatar’s al-Jazeera television, Abu Ghaith told U.S. and British “infidels” to leave the Persian Gulf region, or else “fire will flare underneath their feet.”
Earlier, President Bush said in a radio address that the U.S. government was taking “strong precautions” to protect Americans at home and abroad from more terror attacks. Abu Ghaith’s comments were the second set of warnings al-Qaida made to the United States in the past week.
Bin Laden, suspected of masterminding numerous terror strikes on U.S. interests, including the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington, has long spoken out against a Western presence in the gulf region, especially in his homeland of Saudi Arabia. Bin Laden also has railed against Israel and U.S. involvement in the Mideast, as well as the U.N. sanctions on Iraq.
“We tell Bush and others in the U.S. administration that the storms will not stop, particularly the storm of hijacked planes, until the strikes against Afghanistan end and until Palestinian land is liberated,” Abu Ghaith said.
Yes. I've read about that. Strikes me odd that the American people have received more empathy from Valdmir Putin than Hillary Clinton.
221 posted on 11/12/01 12:02 PM Pacific by NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh
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