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FLIGHT 587 JET A 'TIME BOMB': MAG
New York Post ^
| 8/06/02
| ALY SUJO
Posted on 08/06/2002 1:46:30 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:08:01 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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August 6, 2002 -- The American Airlines jet that crashed in Queens last November was a "high-tech time bomb" that likely crashed because of long-standing technical flaws and not because of air turbulence or pilot error, a new report finds.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aaflight587
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posted on
08/06/2002 1:46:30 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
I feel better knowing that, occasionally, you should expect the rudder to snap off and fall from the aircraft.
To: dread78645
Don't worry, it only happens after an explosion in the baggage compartment according to eyewitnesses.
To: American in Israel
Don't worry, it only happens after an explosion in the baggage compartment according to eyewitnesses. I remember reading approximately five accounts from what were considered to be the most reliable eyewitnesses of Flight 587's tragic demise. It sounded like they were describing four different plane crashes.
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posted on
08/06/2002 4:54:25 AM PDT
by
Coop
To: kattracks
Sounds like a spontaneously combusting center fuel tank to me. Certainly could not have been a shoe bomber. </sarcasm>
To: kattracks
The report on Flight 587 in Vanity Fair's September issue...OMG!!! Puhleeeeaze!!!
"Highlights for Kids" also did an in depth expose on High-Tc YBCO superconductors....
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posted on
08/06/2002 6:15:22 AM PDT
by
sam_paine
To: kattracks
According to the report, the plane that crashed in Belle Harbor Nov. 12, killing 286 people, had experienced problems previously.
In 1994, ceiling baggage compartments were jolted in flight and fell on a passenger, the pilot said.
I fail to see the equivalency between ceiling baggage compartments jolted in flight falling on a passenger and a plane falling apart in flight, crashing and killing 286 people. I think the fact that I have at least 2 brain cells accounts for my skepticism.
I guess after the TWA 800 coverup the NTSB has concluded the American public is so dumbed downed that elaborate coverups are no longer necessary.
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posted on
08/06/2002 6:20:19 AM PDT
by
hflynn
Comment #8 Removed by Moderator
To: kattracks
Well, I guess this is a little more imaginative than the Flying Frozen Butterball Hypothesis.
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posted on
08/06/2002 6:46:03 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
To: sam_paine
Vanity Fair, in spite of your preconceptions about it, produces some of the best journalism in the world.
Although, your low opinion of the magazine would have been justified when Tina Brown was editing it.
To: denydenydeny
Vanity Fair, in spite of your preconceptions about it, produces some of the best journalism in the world.
The saddest commentary on journalism in the world that I have ever read.
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posted on
08/06/2002 7:01:45 AM PDT
by
hflynn
To: *AA Flight 587
To: denydenydeny
Vanity Fair, in spite of your preconceptions about it, produces some of the best journalism in the world.That may be true, indeed, but my loud scoffing was in response to the thought of their "best journalism" covering aerospace composite design issues.
That's best left to Aviation Week and Space Technology, or NASA Tech Briefs, or something of that sort.
No erudite arrogance intended.
To: All
According to a retired transcontinental AA pilot I met once, the Flt. 587 Airbus was manufactured with a structural flaw in the tail assembly ( the tail is built separately from the fuselage ). Upon noticing this particular defect, rather than scraping the tail, a solution was devised. A metal splint was installed in the composite material to reinforce and prevent the concentrated stresses from worsening the flaw.
The solution worked great for some 13 or 14 years until structural failure of the tail occurred.
The story I'm relating is purely third-hand hearsay, so I have no way of verifying this account with other sources.
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