NTSB News Conference

MSNBC

[kingh99]

By those fun loving union mechanics on green card from Algeria, Achmed and Abdullah.

Everyting look Okie Dokie to me!

[r9etb]

If you are trying to save the aircraft the last thing on your mind is letting the ground know you are in trouble.

OTOH, the voice recorder will no doubt have the most common of pre-crash utterances: "Oh, sh*t!"

[Salvation]

No one in government has said that it wasn't a terrorist attack.

BTTT. Good point.

[MindBender26]

Talking is the last thing you do in emergency

First, Aviate
Second, Navigate
Lastly, Communicate.

M/SEL CommInst, 2200 hrs, including. .5 in airship America, 1.5 B-52 and .5 F-111 (Old newsies have all the fun!)!

[wimpycat]

Does she have huge hair?

[Merovingian]

Regardless of one's political persuasion, FR provides one of the quickest sources of Breaking News anywhere. If you don't like the 'opinion' and commentary, just ignore it. I look for the news.

[okie01]

Do New Yorkers have the equivalent of the redneck who isn't overburdened with brains telling the local TV news about the tornado going through the trailer park and that he "seen the whole thing"?

Wrong tense. Correct usage would be "Ah seed the whole thang"...

[kingh99]

Achmed waves to the tow car "Bye bye and fly American!" Oops what's this in my pocket, a kotter pin for impeller" Ought oh! (Laugh track erupts with riotious laughter, fade scene)

[6ppc]

Exactly!

[dennis1x]

From what Ive seen, thats most of New York.

[JayNorth]

one of the pilots radioed in "mechanical"

I think Ari was talking about air-to-ground communications. The report of a "mechanical" was from another pilot in the area, may have been on another frequency.

[wideawake]

"It's noice size, a noice size . . "

[JayNorth]

the voice recorder will no doubt have the most common of pre-crash utterances: "Oh, sh*t!"

Or the secodn most common pre-crash utterance: "I wonder what this button does?"

[GEC]

Members are not political, just engineering types.

Except for the head of the agency.

Have you seen the TWA 800 video?

If you haven't, I'll send you a copy ASAP. Just FReepmail me.

[Moleman]

Cockpit voice recorder was recovered.
Already? Strange...

[chemainus]

"not political , just engineering types" You ARE kidding aren't you ??? Go back and look at the resumes of the Head and other Clinton appointees...

[mlo]

OK, why not say "there's no evidence it was an accident"?

Uh, there's a plane on the ground. That is a good sign of an accident. People are naturally concerned about terrorism. It is the first thing we think of. Responding to that concern is natural and the response right now is there is no evidence that it was.

Surely it should be treated as a terrorist attack until that is ruled out.

Why should it? What does that mean?

It's when they say they are treating it as an accident first, that people get suspiscious about their motivations.

Only people who are unnaturally suspicious of them anyway. Why do so many automatically assume there is even a motive to hide a terrorist attack? Stop being paranoid.