reply to post by daddio
Third, on 11/11 a Costa Rican airliner crashed in the Rockaway section of Queens, this is where most of the firefighters lived who had
responded to the Towers and spoke about what they saw in the various dcumentaries out there. The obvious message was "you better shut the hell up or
else!"
daddio, not sure where
this little gem of a "fact" came from, but if it's the same place as all the others....
Amazing how people will just repeat what they read somewhere and not take the due diligence to check it out first!!
Here's an example: An article written 12 November, 2001, detailing the preliminary (and incorrect, as it turned out) reports of the
American
Airlines jet (not Costa Rican) that crashed just after takeoff from Kennedy, destination the Dominican Republic (NOT Costa Rica, either).
From
archives.cnn.com...
Feds eye engines in air crash
(the engines were not at fault)
November 12, 2001 Posted: 10:07 p.m. EST (0307 GMT)
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Investigators suspect a catastrophic engine event as the likely cause of an airline crash Monday in New York that likley claimed the
lives of everyone on board, a Transportation Department official told CNN.
Investigators have not definitively ruled out terrorism in the crash American Airlines flight 587, but think some sort of engine failure caused the
disaster, the official said.
Officials said the flight, which crashed in Rockaway, a Queens neighborhood, carried 260 people - 246 ticketed passengers, nine crewmembers and five
unticketed infants sitting on their parents' lap. At least six to eight people in Rockaway also have been reported missing immediately following the
crash, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said.
[...]
The flight was an Airbus A300-600. The jet was propelled by General Electric engines [...]the federal Aviation Administration require airlines with
the same GE engines as those on flight 587 to review repairs made on cracked engine blades. That recommendation followed an incident in which an
engine erupted and caught fire during maintenance on a U.S. Airways plane.
A year earlier, the NTSB recommended that airlines with Airbus A300s improve their engines' fire detection system. An engine on an American Airlines
flight that caught fire on takeoff from Puerto Rico prompted that recommendation.
This June, the FAA issued an airworthiness directive, telling airlines to examine specific parts of the GE engine.
A GE spokesman told CNN the company complied with the directive, but could find nothing to change.
(See how the rumors start? This ultimately was seen to be a red herring, yet when doing an Internet search, here's the story, still floating
around!! A casual glance, a misinterpretation, and a new Internet rumor starts about 'big, bad GE engines'!!! BTW, there is NOTHING wrong with GE
engines, just for the record!)
But, the lies and speculations get worse:
New York Gov. George Pataki said there were "inconclusive" reports the pilot dumped fuel into Jamaica Bay, an indication he may have known of a
problem on board.
Completely false
Just before the crash, the Airbus broke up in mid-air.
Finally, a nugget of truth!
A sizable portion of the vertical stabilizer from the tail section landed in Jamaica Bay, while most of the fuselage plunged into
Rockaway.[...]
Pataki said the main crash site suggested the plane dropped at a steep angle, if not vertically.
"It's clear that the plane did come down very much in a straight level, which was horrible for that particular site, but minimized what could have
happened had the plane glided across the Rockaways," he said.
Oh, so now Pataki is an air crash expert??? Again, this is a prime example of how the crap that we see surrounding the 9/11 events found its
germination, it is from rubbish like this. "Pataki said, Pataki said..." His quote '...did come down very much in a straight level...' isn't
even a coherent sentence fragment, let alone a scholarly description, and
he says it as if he witnessed it! He wasn't even there!
...Moments after the plane took off, witnesses said they saw what appeared to be an explosion. [...] "It was like a bomb exploded." (Full
story)
Pesky eyewitnesses!! Always exagerrating -- there was an explosion, alright. When it hit the ground.
Monday's crash site in Rockaway was home to many New York city firefighters and police officers killed in the attack on the World Trade
Center, which prompted an emotional response from the mayor.
[...] Asked if there were any indications of terrorism, Fleischer said "We have not ruled anything in; we have not ruled anything out."
Now, for
daddio...note that Rockaway
was home to many First Responders...who died on 9/11.
Well, that's just an example. For the record, AAL587 crashed because the vertical fin broke off. There are arguments as to whether the pilot
induced the failure by his technique after encountering wake turbulence from a B747 ahead, or whether there was an undetected structural flaw from a
previous incident.
But, I'm guessing if we look hard enough, there's likely a 'conspiracy theory' floating around somewhere about this crash, too.
Again, I used this to show how small, seemingly insignificant comments that are made
even before all of the facts are in can be picked
up, and blossom into a full-blown 'conspiracy'.
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