Ted RE...But its true.......the Alaska Air crash off the coast of CA two years ago; last year's AA crash off the coast of NYC.....both were caused by poor airline maintenance.
Which part is true, that more crashes are caused by shitty union mechanics than Al Qaeda or that Gw is over blowing the terrorism scare, or the part where I said, that should be the mantra of the Dem. party. In the first place, you mentioned only two crashes you claim was caused by shitty union mechanics, however AFAIK the NY American one was possibly caused by a faulty stabilizer. There, AFAIK has been no determination whether it was a design flaw or bad maintenance.
Recently, I heard on the news that they thought maintenance was a problem on the AA airlines flight and that they were moving away from design as being the issue. If that had been a design flaw, the FAA would have ordered corrections to the industry by now.
Same with the ALaska Airlines, there was grease on the gear, Boeing maintains it was the wrong type of grease, however, that didn't totally satisfy the NTSB as Boeing has had to put in redundant systems so if the primary fails, there will be a backup. Most commercial plane has redundant system controls on all major control surfaces, why didn't Boeing have one here? Shitty union mechanics, faulty parts, or bad design, or a combination of all three. Even if both were caused by shitty union mechanics, that would only be two planes, whereas there were 4, count them 4 on 9/11 alone. Plus there have been numerous attempts, Richard Reid, Kenya, hijacking etc. Pan AM 103. After 30 yrs of hijackings and death, isn't time you condemn the murders for what they are, murders, not righteous jihad, but murder, plain and simple.
Hear in Boeing country they showed a photo of the bolt in question......it didn't look like any type of grease was on the sucker. Yes, there is disagreement on the quality of the grease but in the case of the CA crash, the stabilizer bolt was believed to not have been greased for quite a long time prior to the crash which caused it to malfunction.
I don't have the statistics in front of me but maintenance tends to be a significant culprit in a lot of crashes. Airlines have made some big cutbacks in the quality of their maintenance......not necessarily in violation of FAA regulations but cutbacks nonetheless.
More importantly, we have more to fear from OBL than Saddam. Why the impassioned Right can't see this is the huge question for the new millenium.
Are you sure? Saddam has killed millions so far, Obl probably isn't over a hundred thousand yet.
Saddam has killed millions? That's news to me.
And if true, were they millions of Americans? If not, how many Americans? How about the thousands OBL killed? Weren't they Americans? So who do you think is tht bigger threat to Americans, not to Kuwaitis or Kurds or Iranians but Americans?
Iraq also has far more strategic interest, and we can remake Iraq, we aren't going to remake Al Qaeda. So just as Al said the other day, we start with the safest, easiest to win, and isolate OBL enough to make him vulnerable.
How do you think you isolate al Qaeda by defeating Iraq?
ted
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