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F-16 pilot recalls her ‘kamikaze’ mission to bring down flight 93 without ammunition
Andrew's F-16 pilot given orders to bring down flight 93. She sat on the runway at Andrews, hand on the throttle...problem was, she had no live ammuntion. (www.washingtonpost.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Why was this story revealed ten years later? Why not earlier? Why not right after the 911 events? American people's then moral (with the pending war in Afghanistan) was definitely in need of such paradigms. Speaking completely objectively, I can say that I slightly doubt the reliability of this story.It just sounds bizarre that a NORAD fighter a/c took off without ammunition and was ordered to bring down a civil a/c with the fighter pilot's own sacrifice. The 911 day was maybe considered as an "in war day", the story sounds very moving and wonderful but some things do not fit.
Smoke rises there Baja Jones. The mushroom clouds from the atomic bombs dropped on Japan rose to 40,000 feet. The PEPCON explosion, equal to 1000 tons of TNT had a smoke cloud that rose 1000 feet into the air. If Flight 93 had been shot down, debris would have been scattered around a larger area than what it was.
Take at look at ValuJet Flight 592 crash in the Everglades. There was little left of the plane after it hit the ground at 500MPH.
Take at look at ValuJet Flight 592 crash in the Everglades. There was little left of the plane after it hit the ground at 500MPH.
This is link to video referred to in previous comments.
http://youtu.be/frtqTM5rUes
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Smoke rising from crash but WHY large cloud so high?
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http://youtu.be/frtqTM5rUes
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Smoke rising from crash but WHY large cloud so high?
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Thank you Mr. Boyle for your rational views.
@Baja Joes and Steven Boyle: I'm almost to say anything anymore when an honest feeling and opinion pisses somebody off,but here goes. I flew a 707, 757 and recently got typed and transitioned into a brand new 767=200ER, as well as still part time fying on various RJ's and TP's and my hours run in the thousands. I don't know of any missle tracker or jamming device of any kind on a commercial aircraft.They are standard equip on military fighters. That's not to say they aren't on there but they weren't on anything I ever flew. I would have to concur about the impact shaking the ground and causing the light flicker. I saw a "newly discovered video" as part of the 911 plethora that was all over TV last Sunday. If that was the one we are speaking of, it was taken about 15 miles from impact and was shot after impact, only showing smoke rising. I see no reason for the gov't to lie in this case as Bush himslef gave the shootdown order from AirForce One. Cheney merely relayed it which I think that is what he said in the interview. All I know.
Finally there is something that everybody seems to be overlooking here.... One Word.... EJECT !!! HELLO ???
There are a lot of ways this can be done, by the way. The F16 pilot could essentially ram there plane into the commercial plane and eject just before the collision. This would of course be very dangerous as there is the risk of not timing the eject correctly, also there is the chance that the pilot ejects and then their F16 misses the target. However, what about this: Why not go at the commercial jet from behind with the landing gear down on the F16, then with the landing gear of the F16 you would simply try to pound the hell out of the control surfaces of the commercial jet. If the landing gear of the F16 were used to poke a hole right through the wing or the tail.... suppose the F16's landing gear became stuck... even better. They will not be able to fly the big jet worth a damn if you have an F16 attached to the tail or the wing and it landing gear is pushed through the tail or wing. I don't suppose that it would be very hard or very dangerous for that matter for an F16 pilot to bring down an commercial jet with the F16 landing gear by using it as a joust of sort. Don't for get the tail hook either... a skilled F16 pilot coming up on a commercial jet on auto pilot could use the tailhook to rip the stabalizer right off the big jet. An F16 has a landing parachute too... if they simply flew out in front of the big jet and then released it's landing chute it would pretty much get sucked up into the engine. At any rate, once the F16 was stuck to the big plane or whatever, if the F16 became damaged, the pilot only needs to eject to safety.