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its just one of those useless non relevant topics that righties like to post to whip up hysteria and foaming at the mouth attitudes and if they're lucky may contribute to the start of a hatefest.
Just the usual psychobabble from the right=
Plane blows up and thousands of people say it was shot down with a missile, our own missile no less.
Must be a slow day on the Hate Obama topics..
Maybe because most people took mathematics through at least the 5th grade?
There are approximately 11 million commercials flights annually in the United States. It's been 16 years since TWA 800 went down.
16 * 11,000,000 = 176,000,000
So you figure those 176 million-to-1 odds are so terrifying that people shouldn't fly?
You're a prime example of irrational fears -- of people who are too scared to fly (ignorant of the fact that a 100-mile car ride is more 'dangerous' than a flight from New York to Paris [the TWA 800 flight]).
Irrational fears? I am NOT afraid to fly. I have confidence that the fuel tanks on the airplanes I travel in will not blow up.
I'm a retired engineer, a life long general aviation pilot and after I retired I went to worked for the US Department of Homeland security. Studying aircraft acidents have been a passion of mine for 30 years. I study small plane crashes, large plane crashes and everything in-between. I subscribe to an aviation journal that only publishes the technical details of aircraft acidents.
The technical data and aviation acidents takes years to complete and when the information was finally published about flight 800 it took up every page of the journal (about 30 pages). I had never seen more then 10 pages of info on any accident. The flight 800 accident report was unique to any report in 30 years. It had sections of data blacked out and the publisher reported that the government would no release it, and did not say why.
Something else that was very strange, the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) is reponsible for aircraft accident investigations was kick out and the FBI took over. The head of the FBI published and signed the final report on the accident even though several of the FBI special agents that did the investigation resigned.
A few weeks before the crash of flight 800 a small corporate jet was flying just East of long island at about 10,000 feet heading south when it disappeared from radar never to be seen again. Some people on shore reported a streak of light headed for the plane and then they saw another fireball fall into the sea.
When flight 800 blew-up, Flight 900 was 10 mins behind it cimbing out of Kennedy airport. Flight 900 was full of Israeli miltary officers heading back to Isreal from military operations with American counter parts.
I'm sorry, I could write about this subject for days. All I can say is that all the information I have leads to a cover-up.
I'm a retired engineer, a life long general aviation pilot and after I retired I went to worked for the US Department of Homeland security.<snip>
You provide circumstantial anecdotes that seem to cause you concern. But you make no comments regarding the technical details of the report itself. As a fellow engineer, I would have first expected you to comment on those first.
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