The Case for Sabotage
Nov. 13th, 2001 10:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hkellickThis may be another long one. Lots of things on my mind.
As y'all know, Flight 587 crashed in Rockland, New York yesterday morning 3 minutes after takeoff. All passengers and crew are presumed dead as well as a few (and thankfully ONLY a few on the ground.). An estimated 300 people died last night in the worst "accident" since the TWA 800.
The blame is being placed on the engine. The engine that the plane used had "Been known to have problems with cracking" and 7 such problems with the engines had been dug up. This engine is used on litereally thousands of planes (INCLUDING Air Force One, so says anonova.com) with no catastrophic failures to date. The left engine that apparently failed had just been overhauled recently and both engines had had a maintence check the day before.
It's hard to say that American Airlines are, therefore, criminally negligent.. or negligent whatsoever. Of the 7 such problems with the engine, none of them had caused the engine to fly off the plane as happened in Rockland.
I'm not an Aerospace Engineer so I can't speak much on how planes are made or manufactured or even how an engine falls off or blows off a plane. However I fail to see how an accident causes the engine to fall or blow off.
Does anyone know?
And what about the sprayed fuel over Jamaica Bay? Why did the pilot start losing his fuel? He must have known he was about to crash. So why didn't he SOS? This also seems suspicious. He must have known he was going to crash if he started losing fuel. He must have known SOMETHING was wrong.
Add this peace to the puzzle. The US Government has said time and again that in order to keep the peace, they would lie or simply not tell the truth. So it's altogether possible they KNOW that this is sabotage but to keep us all from panicking some more, they'll say it was an accident.
Of course... if they hold with this story, I think you can probably kiss American Airlines, the biggest airplane company in America (i THINK) goodbye. I can't imagine consumer confidence in flying was high before yesterday but I'm sure it's gotten lower since. Will the government allow AA to go bankrupt?
I dunno. But like I said, it all seems a little too suspicious to me.
And if it WAS sabotage, I have some uncomfortable questions to ask:
1) Where was the FBI? or NSA? Why wasn't someone aware that this was planned?
2) How was this allowed to happen? Why hasn't airport security BEEN beefed up since the 11th. Askolys has said, airline security is STILL a joke. It's a joke at the borders too. As someone who lives near the border, my family and I go in and out of canada a bit and the security there is still... pathetic.
What will it take for security to increase? How many more thousands need to die?
*shakes his head*
On a more personal vein... yesterday was... interesting
Let's start with my presentation. Did I mention to y'all that I had to give a presentation yesterday on UBEESC to the GSA (Graduate Student Association) to try to get members? Well.. I did.. one problem.. we'd made a powerpoint presentation and the computer couldn't see Disc A!! So I start my presentation with "Well.. pretend there's this beautiful presentation behind me..." and go on from there. That was... interesting.
Oh.. and I found a SECOND Phish song I like: Cavern.
So I've decided I might give Phish a second chance and try to download some of their stuff and see if I like it.
So... anyone know of any good Phish I should give a chance? if so, please comment and tell me!
That's all I can think of.. so.. you're quote of the day!
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"I can't stand it! I know you planned it!
But I'm gonna get it straight, this Watergate" - Beastie Boys "Sabotage"
As y'all know, Flight 587 crashed in Rockland, New York yesterday morning 3 minutes after takeoff. All passengers and crew are presumed dead as well as a few (and thankfully ONLY a few on the ground.). An estimated 300 people died last night in the worst "accident" since the TWA 800.
The blame is being placed on the engine. The engine that the plane used had "Been known to have problems with cracking" and 7 such problems with the engines had been dug up. This engine is used on litereally thousands of planes (INCLUDING Air Force One, so says anonova.com) with no catastrophic failures to date. The left engine that apparently failed had just been overhauled recently and both engines had had a maintence check the day before.
It's hard to say that American Airlines are, therefore, criminally negligent.. or negligent whatsoever. Of the 7 such problems with the engine, none of them had caused the engine to fly off the plane as happened in Rockland.
I'm not an Aerospace Engineer so I can't speak much on how planes are made or manufactured or even how an engine falls off or blows off a plane. However I fail to see how an accident causes the engine to fall or blow off.
Does anyone know?
And what about the sprayed fuel over Jamaica Bay? Why did the pilot start losing his fuel? He must have known he was about to crash. So why didn't he SOS? This also seems suspicious. He must have known he was going to crash if he started losing fuel. He must have known SOMETHING was wrong.
Add this peace to the puzzle. The US Government has said time and again that in order to keep the peace, they would lie or simply not tell the truth. So it's altogether possible they KNOW that this is sabotage but to keep us all from panicking some more, they'll say it was an accident.
Of course... if they hold with this story, I think you can probably kiss American Airlines, the biggest airplane company in America (i THINK) goodbye. I can't imagine consumer confidence in flying was high before yesterday but I'm sure it's gotten lower since. Will the government allow AA to go bankrupt?
I dunno. But like I said, it all seems a little too suspicious to me.
And if it WAS sabotage, I have some uncomfortable questions to ask:
1) Where was the FBI? or NSA? Why wasn't someone aware that this was planned?
2) How was this allowed to happen? Why hasn't airport security BEEN beefed up since the 11th. As
kolys has said, airline security is STILL a joke. It's a joke at the borders too. As someone who lives near the border, my family and I go in and out of canada a bit and the security there is still... pathetic.What will it take for security to increase? How many more thousands need to die?
*shakes his head*
On a more personal vein... yesterday was... interesting
Let's start with my presentation. Did I mention to y'all that I had to give a presentation yesterday on UBEESC to the GSA (Graduate Student Association) to try to get members? Well.. I did.. one problem.. we'd made a powerpoint presentation and the computer couldn't see Disc A!! So I start my presentation with "Well.. pretend there's this beautiful presentation behind me..." and go on from there. That was... interesting.
Oh.. and I found a SECOND Phish song I like: Cavern.
So I've decided I might give Phish a second chance and try to download some of their stuff and see if I like it.
So... anyone know of any good Phish I should give a chance? if so, please comment and tell me!
That's all I can think of.. so.. you're quote of the day!
***
"I can't stand it! I know you planned it!
But I'm gonna get it straight, this Watergate" - Beastie Boys "Sabotage"
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Date: 2001-11-13 08:56 am (UTC)As for the government talking of lying to the people for their own good... well, they've been saying that about all manner of things since the 1940s. I'm not going to worry unduly about that sort of thing.
I'm not going to believe that this is sabotage until I see something a LOT more convincing. At least the plane's cockpit voice recorder doesn't show any evidence of unusual activity there, beyond the initiation of standard emergency procedures.
Damn A300s only having two engines. Methinks airlines will be buying the 4-engine A340s from now on, even if they are somewhat more expensive.