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Possible SAM Attack Against US Plane
Little Green Footballs ^
| 9/17/05
| Charles Johnson
Posted on 09/17/2005 6:48:09 PM PDT by jimboster
Ive just received a credible tip from an LGF reader that an America West flight out of New York was fired upon by a surface to air missile yesterday, and that the pilot and passengers witnessed it and are now being questioned by the FAA and FBI.
Thats the extent of the information I currently have, and please note: right now this is completely unverified.
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Just an unverified rumor so far.
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posted on
09/17/2005 6:48:09 PM PDT
by
jimboster
To: jimboster
No doubt this is what happened to TWA800. That was during the Clinton years and Boeing got blamed for bad wiring around gas tanks. Anything but calling it Islamofascist terrorism during the 1996 election year.
This is probably the same kind of attack except this time it failed.
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posted on
09/17/2005 6:49:50 PM PDT
by
putupjob
Comment #3 Removed by Moderator
To: jimboster
Do you know:
Where was the plane at the time?
How close was the rocket to the plane?
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posted on
09/17/2005 6:52:38 PM PDT
by
msnimje
(Cogito Ergo Sum Republican)
To: nw_arizona_granny; grizzfan
I'm way behind on the TM thread, so I have no idea if this has been posted or not
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posted on
09/17/2005 6:52:40 PM PDT
by
justche
(No one can go back and make a brand new start, any one can start now and make a brand new ending)
To: jimboster
if it were fired upon by a handheld sam then the shooter was a crappy shot... most are pretty much point lock and shoot... and since airliners don't have the manuevarablility or anti missile devices. I don't see how it could have avoided a well aimed shot.
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posted on
09/17/2005 6:52:46 PM PDT
by
Americanwolf
(U.S. Navy Veteran.....93-97 Clinton I want my trip to Australia! I had to go to China you pervert!)
To: jimboster
Government will say it was a shoot star or some one was firing off fire crackers.
I agree with the person who posted TWA was shot down by missle.
7
posted on
09/17/2005 6:52:55 PM PDT
by
rineaux
(I Refuse to comment on this post until I know what Jesse Jackson Thinks.)
To: jimboster
the airport would have been shut down instantly. was it? if not, then this did not happen.
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posted on
09/17/2005 6:53:40 PM PDT
by
oceanview
To: msnimje
I just saw this on Little Green Footballs
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posted on
09/17/2005 6:53:44 PM PDT
by
jimboster
(Vitajex, whatcha doin' to me)
To: jimboster
To: jimboster
Pretty quiet so far, but imo, it wouldn't be the first time.
To: putupjob
TWA800 was too high. it was a shoe bomb.
To: putupjob
Anything but calling it Islamofascist terrorism during the 1996 election year.
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Right on. The standard tactic. Will be interesting to see how long it takes, if this is real, for the facts to hit the street.
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posted on
09/17/2005 6:54:39 PM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: rineaux
Yes, of course it was. The only question early on was whether it was an errant Navy missle or a terrorist's missle.
To: Americanwolf
Could have been a range problem.
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posted on
09/17/2005 6:55:20 PM PDT
by
U S Army EOD
(LET ME KNOW WHERE HANOI JANE FONDA IS WHEN SHE TOURS)
To: jimboster; COEXERJ145; microgood; liberallarry; cmsgop; shaggy eel; RayChuang88; Larry Lucido; ...
If you want on or off my aerospace ping list, please contact me by Freep mail.
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posted on
09/17/2005 6:55:27 PM PDT
by
Paleo Conservative
(France is an example of retrograde chordate evolution.)
To: jimboster
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posted on
09/17/2005 6:55:29 PM PDT
by
VadeRetro
(Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
To: jimboster
Sounds like a union member was pissed about the America West/US Airways merger.
18
posted on
09/17/2005 6:55:52 PM PDT
by
inkling
To: jimboster
There is no point of having an UNVERIFIED RUMOR in News.
This is just fearmongering.
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posted on
09/17/2005 6:56:16 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
To: Americanwolf
most are pretty much point lock and shoot...Maybe it was an RPG fired from the end of the runway...........much easier to miss with one of those. I still think the Rockaway Bay crash was an RPG or an on-board shoebomber.
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posted on
09/17/2005 6:57:15 PM PDT
by
ALASKA
(I might have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night..........)
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