"Suddenly we saw in the distance a strong, intense flash of white light that took a downward, vertical trajectory and disappeared in six seconds," the pilot of an Air Comet flight from Lima to Madrid told his company, the El Mundo newspaper reported. "We did not hear any communication on any emergency or air to air frequency either before or after this event."That was from a Spanish news paper. Most of our American newspaper and media outlets are reporting something like 14 horrible minutes of terror as a storm slowly demolished the aircraft, a version that does not support the final transmission from the aircraft of a sudden, catastrophic loss of cabin pressure.
My immediate thought was of a barometrically triggered bomb, one that would arm itself when the plane passed up through a certain altitude, and then detonate when the aircraft started back downward, like in trying to get below a bad thunderhead and/or vicious high-altitude winds.
So far, I haven't believed a thing I've heard or read, because the plane - and it's black boxes - are now in two miles of water, and nobody knows what happened. For certain, this 14 minutes of terror story is pure fabricated nonsense. We will get some solid clues when the black boxes are recovered - if ever.
But the eyewitness account - from a seasoned pilot - sure sounds like a bomb, and the making a barometric trigger from the altimeter in a Cessna 150 - or some such airplane - is child's play.
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In the absence of any other conclusive evidence the bomb idea is very plausible. However, if the Clintonistas can get the world to believe that TWA flight 800 was the result of a fuel tank explosion, then anything is possible.
M.
I agree...
Our chances of knowing the truth about this incident approaches absolute zero.
Your first indication of bullshit will be when the bureaucrats closest at hand and responsible for results "don't know anything about it", which is jabberwocky for "we damned well DO know, but you plebescheithe don't need to, in our opinion."
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