Has anyone heard of the 1982 Air Florida plane crash in the Potomac River?
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Yes. \n\nThe aircraft crashed into the 14th Street Bridge and into the Potomac River on takeoff from Washington National Airport. Despite heavy snow and frigid temperatures, the crew failed to activate the engine anti-ice systems. This blunder caused the engine instruments to display erroneously high thrust readings during takeoff and, as a result, the crew attempted to takeoff using only 71% thrust.  \n\nThe NTSB report-\nhttp://amelia.db.erau.edu/reports/ntsb/aar/AAR82-08.pdf\n\nMore about "Palm 90" crash at these links:\nhttp://www.airdisaster.com/special/special-af90.shtml\nhttp://www.aopa.org/asf/asfarticles/sp9901.html\nhttp://www.stormloader.com/chrisk757/af90special.html\n\n\nThe cockpit voice recorder transcript-\nhttp://www.airdisaster.com/cvr/af90tr.shtml\n\n(PS- you would have gotten an answer sooner if you posted in "Cars & Transportation: Aircraft" catagory)
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I have seen it several years ago. You can make a 7 foot hole with a 767 jumbo jet. One of the engines alone would make a larger hole that what the damage shows.
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Uh, a Boeing DID  crash into the Pentagon.  My sisters' friend's uncle had just left that part of the Pentagon to get coffee (or something) when the plane hit.  He's was lucky.
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oh i'm so sorry to hear that.  one of my high school teachers lost her husband in that tornado too.  you can check with the wausau daily herald to see if they have the stories and photos in their archives.  it made front page news there.\n\nhttp://www.wausaudailyherald.com
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Here's a great link about that.\nhttp://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa030702a.htm
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This scenario was breached in a recent book, "Assured Response", I forgot who the author was. It was pretty devastating.... actually they blew up four dams on the Colorado in sequence, causing a 200 ft high flash flood through the Grand Canyon.
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Claim: First is that there was NO plane found at or near the pentagon. \n\nFact: A disintegrated American Airlines Boeing 757-223 (N644AA) was found on the lawn and inside of the Pentagon.\n\nClaim: a janitor in the first tower who heard an explosion in the basement minutes before the plane hit.\n\nFact: Thousands of other people heard and saw the explosion come from over their heads. Video images show Boeing 767’s hitting both of the towers.\n\nClaim: Also, research was done on the flights, and most cross country flights are booked to capacity but those 4 that day (towers, pentagon, flight 93) were all booked to LESS than half capacity, as if they knew what was going to happen.\n\nFact: Load factors for American and United Airlines had been very low on all flights. They were already hemorrhaging money and United eventually went into bankruptcy. American is still losing their shirt. This was competition in action…not predestination.\n\nClaim: The pilots apparently weren't good and I think he said 1 or 2 didn't even have the pilot’s license.\n\nFact: The pilots (I assume you mean the terrorist pilots) had enough training to steer an airliner into a building. You don’t need to be much beyond a private pilot with some internet information available to be able to fly an airliner in a reckless manner into a large target. But you probably couldn’t do it twice.\n\nClaim: The article alluded that the government had a lot to do with (or planned attacks)... ran out of characters :-(\n\nFact: The government’s too big to keep a secret this big. Too many people have big mouths…and coordinating a mass suicide would not be something many people would agree to get involved with.
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NTSB Identification: DCA78AA004\n14 CFR Part 135 Nonscheduled operation of L & J COMPANY\nEvent occurred Thursday, October 20, 1977 in GILLSBURG, MS\nAircraft: CONVAIR 240, registration: N55VM\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE    DATE          LOCATION          AIRCRAFT DATA       INJURIES       FLIGHT                        PILOT DATA                                                               F  S M/N     PURPOSE----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3-3896  77/10/20   GILLSBURG,MS        CONVAIR 240         CR-  2  0  0  COMMERCIAL                AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE        TIME - 1852                    N55VM               PX-  4 19  1  AIR TAXI-PASSG            34, 6802 TOTAL HOURS, 68                                       DAMAGE-DESTROYED    OT-  0  0  0                            IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT                                                                                                   RATED.        DEPARTURE POINT             INTENDED DESTINATION          GREENVILLE,SC               BATON ROUGE,LA        TYPE OF ACCIDENT                                         PHASE OF OPERATION           ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION                            IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE           COLLIDED WITH: TREES                                     LANDING: FINAL APPROACH        PROBABLE CAUSE(S)           PILOT IN COMMAND - MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL           MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - INATTENTIVE TO FUEL SUPPLY           MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - FUEL EXHAUSTION        FACTOR(S)           PILOT IN COMMAND - INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING           POWERPLANT - MISCELLANEOUS: OTHER        COMPLETE POWER LOSS - COMPLETE ENGINE FAILURE/FLAMEOUT-2 ENGINES        EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND        REMARKS- R ENG MALFUNCTION OF UNDETERMINED NATURE RESULTED IN HIGHER THAN NORMAL FUEL CONSUMPTION.
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The extant videos of the " crash site " of flight 93 show no sign of large debris. One of the plane engines was found thousands of feet away. The cordoned off " debris fieled was 9 miles wide. You tell me. Did this airliner crash into the ground or disintigrate in the air?
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Russia dropped!!!!from an airplane this hugh super H-Bomb...it was meant to scare the US. There is a video of it on the net somewhere. It was the biggest one set off..I found a link to it below
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Try checking the archives of the Washington newspapers to find out what happened.\n\nYou will need a date for the incident tho or use the on-line newspaper search facility.
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I did a search on the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) database for dates 10/13/2006-10/27/2006, state of Indiana and got no records found.  The link is down below.\n\nThen I increased the date range to 9/1/2006 - 11/5/2006 and got three hits:\n\nDate, Location, Make/Model, Reg. number, Severity, operation\n10/29/2006,Monroe City IN,Cessna 150H,N23175,Nonfatal,Part 91: General Aviation  \n9/21/2006,Auburn IN,Devereux Mustang II,N44DX, Nonfatal,Part 91: General Aviation  \n9/15/2006, Bloomington IN,Columbia 350,N6500V, Nonfatal,Part 91: General Aviation  \n\nStill nothing in Indiana the week of 10/20.\n\n It looks like the other answerer's search came up with hits on April 20, 2006 and if I plug that into the NTSB database, I get this having to do with the April 20 crash:\n\nhttp://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20060425X00483&key=1
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I actually believe the fourth plane (United 93) was in fact shot down.  I don't believe the passengers brought the plane down. I don't think anyone is going to know for sure for a long, long time and I think the story about the passengers bringing the plane down was circulated because America desparately needed a hero to believe in then. \n\nThat said, the SOP's have been changed, because the SOP's back then were not adequate. If you drive down VA Rte 110 which goes very close to the Pentagon, you may catch a glimpse of anti-aircraft weaponry placed around the facility.  And the response time for a fighter jet to get in the air is a lot lower. We had never had a situation like that before and we got caught unprepared.
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OK, now let's leave poor Bill Clinton out of this!\nYes, there was a story back in the 80's about a creature over in Monkey Run AR, near where I live.  I haven't heard much else.
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It is a triangle area of sea off the Florida/ Miami coast where planes and ships have disappeared, and people. Apparently the magnetic force field inside the triangle messes with radars on planes etc, so the pilots get confused, veer off their course and crash. Other boats have come through the triangle without any crew. Others claim it is a gateway into another world, but I guess we will never know unless we actually go through it.
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On the bottom of the Atlantic ocean, 1700 feet under the surface, archaeologists found the wreck of the old side-wheel steamship, "Republic."  She sank in a great hurricane in October, 1865, off the coast of Georgia (US - the country of Georgia is landlocked).\n\nNewspaper reports after the ship's loss said that she went down with $400,000 of gold coin, destined for New Orleans.  And one newspaper story suggesed she also carried a separate cargo of $70,000 in coin for someone else in New Orleans.\n\nUsing robotic equipment, the archaeologists excavated the SS Republic.  They found the remnants of two wooden barrels holding gold and silver coins, 59,000 in all.  So far, they have not found the rest of the money said to have been aboard th ship.\n\nThe wreck of the SS Republic presents MANY historical mysteries.  One of the myseries is, who were the people who escaped from her that stormy day?  Some are known and their stories have been found, but most remain just names in newspaper lists of shipwreck survivors.  Another is who were the people who died after the ship sank?  Newspaper accounts suggest one or two people drowned while swimming away from the sinking ship to lifeboats, and either 14 or 16 people died while castaways on a raft that was not found until a week after the sinking.  All of these people today are forgotten, nameless victims; who were they?\n\nOf course, the archaeologists would VERY much like to know where the rest of the money can be found on the wreck.\n\nAnd finally there is THIS mystery:\n\nAt least one and maybe more of the canvas bags of coins in the barrels came from the Bank of New York.  The archaeologists found the lead seals used by the bank to close the bags.  Those bags of coins were silver half-dollars, ALL made in the New Orleans mint in 1861 - some before Louisiana seceded from the Union, some made while Louisiana was an independent state, and others made when the Confederacy ruled.  So the coins in these bags were under Confederate control after they were minted.  Most of the money in New Orleans was dispersed into the Deep South when the Union assaulted, and captured, the city in April of 1862. \n\nHOW DID THEY GET TO NEW YORK DURING THE CIVIL WAR?\n\nHow did these bags of 1861 "O" silver half-dollars end up in a New York bank vault, and then come to be put on the doomed vessel to be shipped back to New Orleans only months after the war had ended?
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Well I was there, if you are indeed talking about Missouri/Illinois etc....  I am sure there is a lot of information out there.  Just google or ask.com info about the flood of 93...