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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Bilow who wrote (10684)11/17/2001 11:52:49 AM
From: thestockrider  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
If an airliner can't handle .4 to .8 G laterally across the tail, how did it get certified as airworthy? Either this was sabotage, or I'm never going to fly on an Airbus product again.

Some sort of minor weakness in the tail was probably exacerbated by the relative wind passing over the tail section. If the weakness results in oscillations driven by the wind, the structure could weaken quickly and suffer catastrophic failure. The phenomenon is known as flutter. Flutter of the elevator control surface is what led to the crash of the Alaska Airlines jet a couple years ago off southern California. The structural weakness that allowed the oscillations need not be exactly where the break occurred.

Considering how carefully calculated the destruction of the World Trade Center was, it's not unreasonable to think that the terrorists devised other equally skilled ways of destroying airplanes. I'm convinced that there are terrorist cells in the NYC area. I've read the government version of what caused the crash of TWA 800 and also the alternative versions. I lean toward terrorists shooting down TWA 800. The US Government has a history of covering up the causes of airline accidents going back to KAL 007.

Isn't it funny that the anthrax attacks are winding down. Wasn't there a story about some muslims carrying mail in plastic bags to their car in the middle of the night in New Jersey? They were picked up by the FBI, and the anthrax attacks have stopped. But the latest government spin is that a lone middle aged American male is responsible. I guess this is more palatable to the American public.
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