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Date: June 26, 1988
Time: 14:45
Location: Habsheim, France
Operator: Air France
Flight number: 296Q
Route: Basel - Basel
AC type: Airbus A320-111
Aboard: 136 (passengers: 130, crew:6)
Fatalities: 3 (passengers: 3, crew:0)
Summary: The plane was scheduled to perform a series of fly-bys at an air show. The plane was to descend to 100 ft. altitude with landing gear and flaps extended. The automatic go-around protection was inhibited for the maneuver. During the maneuver, the plane descended thru 100 ft. to an altitude of 30 feet and hit trees at the end of the runway. The aircraft was totally destroyed by the successive impacts and violent fire which followed. The pilot allowed the aircraft to descend through 100 ft. at slow speed and maximum angle of attack and was late in applying go-around power. Unfamiliarity of the crew with the landing field and lack of planning for the flyby.
Source: www.planecrashinfo.com...
Honeywell's black boxes want to be found, but people need to realize that the French are in charge of the search. They have to make it look good, but finding the black boxes is the last thing they want to do. Of course, Airbus is owned by more than one country, but they are assembled in France. As long as there's no black boxes, then the French government, who is closely involved with Airbus (one of the conflicts of interests created by socialism), can blame the crash on something relatively inexpensive to fix, like pitot tubes or software. The problem is the infamous standard Airbus vertical stabilizer connection to the fuselage. They rely on a software based limiter to protect the fragile connection. There have been many instances of the tail fin snapping off. Late last year, an Air New Zealand Airbus crashed in the Mediterranean, and it's vertical stabilizer was found floating in the Mediterranean, away from the other wreckage. It didn't make big news, as only the flight crew was on board. Once the vertical stabilizer snaps off, you'll get messed up speed readings, because the plane will go into a flat spin or a Dutch roll, so I think, with Flight 447, the tail fin snapping off was the beginning of the problem. Remember the French cover-up of Flight 296, where they switched the black boxes in order to blame the pilot instead of the Airbus. The switch wasn't discovered until 10 years later. Don't let the French get away with it for so long again!
Originally posted by LaBTop
ATH911, it seems like you missed this part :
"", still connecting that to a missile,"".
The red colored missile photo GODave suddenly introduced.
That's where you were pointing at when you wrote the words wingless or no wings. At that red missile having nearly no wings.
Not a wingless UAV, which you never said.
To anyone with a sane brain, it would be obvious that I meant the WHITE small UAV depicted in that pamphlet in the top right corner. Just above that red target practice missile.
That's why it looks as if he sneaks small misconceptions in, and then keeps hammering on that one for pages long.
"A missile with no wings"
Could be that he just lacks a good portion of comprehension, of course, since a first grader can understand that Susan could have never mixed up a small very slow and low flying UAV which arrived from the south one minute before the crash + following smoke column; with a really high flying Falcon jet north of the scene, which has been NTSB-documented to arrive minutes after the first smoke rose up in the sky at the crash site.
Originally posted by DCDAVECLARKE
Here's proof that the Jet was taking care off by F16s from the National Guard! as the White House says
Originally posted by TrickoftheShade
reply to post by DCDAVECLARKE
Okay. I think you're still missing the point.
Why would the government shoot the plane down if the government wanted it to crash into a building?
Originally posted by DCDAVECLARKE
Its not the Government per say, its TPTB pulling the strings, to them we are but cattle in a very large herd! we mean nothing to them!
GoodolDave : The only one shifting to a different subject here is you. I am quoting Susan McElwain who said in a previous interview with the Bergan Record (which every 9/11 conspiracy web site accepts as legitimate) that the craft had "two rear engines, a big fin on the back like a spoiler on the back of a car and with two upright fins at the side." Predators don't have two rear engines and according to your own links they stall and fall like a meteor below 60mph, so none of the fanciful suggestions you have made comes close to resembling what she had seen.
If you are going to quote her verbatim then you need to take ALL her quotes into account verbatim, not just cherry pick those one or two sexy sounding ones that you find expedient to your agenda. Otherwise, you're only agreeing with me that she may have misjudged some of the events she's reporting.
Less than a minute before the Flight 93 crash rocked the countryside, she sees a small white jet with rear engines and no discernible markings swoop low over her minivan near an intersection and disappear over a hilltop, nearly clipping the tops of trees lining the ridge. [Bergen Record, 9/14/2001]
She later adds, “There’s no way I imagined this plane—it was so low it was virtually on top of me. It was white with no markings but it was definitely military, it just had that look. It had two rear engines, a big fin on the back like a spoiler on the back of a car and with two upright fins at the side. I haven’t found one like it on the Internet. It definitely wasn’t one of those executive jets. The FBI came and talked to me and said there was no plane around.… But I saw it and it was there before the crash and it was 40 feet above my head. They did not want my story—nobody here did.” [Mirror, 9/12/2002]
GoodolDave : If you are going to quote her verbatim then you need to take ALL her quotes into account verbatim, not just cherry pick those one or two sexy sounding ones that you find expedient to your agenda. Otherwise, you're only agreeing with me that she may have misjudged some of the events she's reporting.
A big passenger plane flew upside down just above Viola's Maple tree in her back garden, coming from the North, heading South. Which does not fit the FDR at all, that placed their passenger plane 1.4 km above Viola's garden.
Susan saw a small white drone coming from the South, no bigger than her van she rode in, hopping over her van in front of her, then dodging the trees at the road junction while turning to the right, in the direction of the crash site, which she could not see at that moment. But a big cloud of smoke rose above the tree tops, and while she drove home, she had an unhindered sight to her left, of the crash site's billowing smoke.
If the drone did not cause the smoke column, then how on earth could the army, navy or air force know in advance where to send that drone, and when? While they say till today, that they were caught off guard.
Of course the CIA and several other not so well known agencies also had drones.
The simple fact that Susan saw that little white drone proves foreknowledge by some government, be it the USA, or others. Of course the US is on top of that list, there will be only a faint possibility that a foreign military power would take the risk for such an operation in the mids of rural Pennsylvania.
You know perfectly well that Susan was talking about a white, sort of plastic molded drone with no rivets visible, and the most important remark from her, NOT BIGGER AS HER VAN.
And you have the decadency to re-introduce that Global Hawk which is TEN TIMES BIGGER as a van?
I'll show you one, if you want, which fits her description, with an official date attached, from operation Amalgam Virgo from June 2001, a counter terrorism combined training exercise from 1-2 June 2001.
That's 3.5 months before 911.
And THAT totally white plastic molded MILITARY DRONE is comparable to the size of a SUV, a.k.a. a minivan, of circa 4.5 to 5 meters long and 2.2 meters wide.
And could have been what she saw. And I can show you a whole list of other DRONES which were operable around that time.
I told you already that these things hung off the wings of C-130E electronic countermeasures military planes, are you trying to obfuscate matters, or can't or won't you read?
Be a man, address the quintessence of the matter in my linked-to post above.
You can't? Thus you avoid it as the plague?
Too well known tactics by now.
It's getting damn annoying, to have to see all of you use the same old tactic of stretching a thread with good info, out over tenths of pages with unrelated drivel, so any interest of the bulk of the readers will be trampled to death.