Sit on it long enough, it might hatch
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:58 am
I think it's time to ask the FBI when they're going to publish a formal report on Flight 93. Previously they've declined on, I think, the basis that criminal prosecutions might be prejudiced if a report were issued before convictions were secured. I think we've passed the point now where we can reasonably anticipate any further criminal prosecutions in relation to this aircrash, haven't we?
For other than the incidents during September 11, 2001, every crash which has killed all the passengers of a commercial jet in America has led to the National Transportation Safety Board conducting an air safety investigation and issuing a report. Those four flights are marked in the NTSB database as:The Safety Board did not determine the probable cause and does not plan to issue a report or open a public docket. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 are under the jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Safety Board provided requested technical assistance to the FBI, and any material generated by the NTSB is under the control of the FBI.People remember the strange circumstances of the crash, presumably? For the one and only time in the history of aviation a commercial airliner 155 feet long, 144 feet wide, with a tail 44 feet high, disappeared into a 20-by-10-foot hole in the ground and didn't even singe the grass around the edge. You'd think a crash analysis report would be pretty essential in such circumstances.
So, Mister Stinky Federal Bureau of so-called Investigation, you've been the sole investigating agency for six whole long years now and nobody else has been allowed near any of the evidence. When can we expect to see a professional comprehensive crash report instead of a hundred minutes of Hollywood hokum? We can watch the news coverage from the day and interviews of the fire department staff in Shanksville, but it's not the same as a proper analysis now is it.
For other than the incidents during September 11, 2001, every crash which has killed all the passengers of a commercial jet in America has led to the National Transportation Safety Board conducting an air safety investigation and issuing a report. Those four flights are marked in the NTSB database as:The Safety Board did not determine the probable cause and does not plan to issue a report or open a public docket. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 are under the jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Safety Board provided requested technical assistance to the FBI, and any material generated by the NTSB is under the control of the FBI.People remember the strange circumstances of the crash, presumably? For the one and only time in the history of aviation a commercial airliner 155 feet long, 144 feet wide, with a tail 44 feet high, disappeared into a 20-by-10-foot hole in the ground and didn't even singe the grass around the edge. You'd think a crash analysis report would be pretty essential in such circumstances.
So, Mister Stinky Federal Bureau of so-called Investigation, you've been the sole investigating agency for six whole long years now and nobody else has been allowed near any of the evidence. When can we expect to see a professional comprehensive crash report instead of a hundred minutes of Hollywood hokum? We can watch the news coverage from the day and interviews of the fire department staff in Shanksville, but it's not the same as a proper analysis now is it.