New York Post
NTSB BIRDBRAINS STICKING HEADS IN ROCKAWAY SAND
By STEVE DUNLEAVY
December 2, 2001 -- LITTLE wonder the National Transportation Safety Board
has bleated for help from NASA to help them out in the tragic crash of
American Airlines Flight 587. The NTSB has shown in the past that it is run
by a bunch of bumbling bureaucrats who couldn't find a needle in a thimble.
Here they were with 265 dead, and God knows how many mourners, giving us
this claptrap that the tail fell off mysteriously.
"No tail fell off, not before the explosion. I swear to that," said retired
firefighter Tom Lynch, who was doing his exercise march along Rockaway
Beach
Boulevard on Nov. 12.
"I had my head up taking in that beautiful, clear day and was staring
straight at the plane.
"It made a bank turn and suddenly there was an explosion, orange and black,
on the righthand side of the fuselage. It was a small explosion, about half
the size of a car.
"The plane kept on going straight for about two or three seconds as if
nothing had happened, then 'vwoof' - the second, big explosion on the right
wing, orange and black.
"It was only then that the plane fell apart. It was after the explosion and
I'm telling you, the tail was there until the second explosion."
Lynch, who lives near the crash site in Belle Harbor, claims he has 13
people who saw the plane on fire before the breakup. Until the explosion
the
tail was intact.
He contacted the FBI, NTSB, Rep. Anthony Weiner, and Sens. Chuck Schumer
and
Hillary Clinton.
"I got no response from anyone," said Lynch, "Sabotage? That's for other
people to decide. At first, we hear there were seagulls in the engine, the
plane was caught in a jet stream and the tail fell off. No damn tail fell
off until after the second explosion."
Jim Conrad, who retired last month as a police lieutenant after 34 years,
accidentally met Lynch in a dentist's office one week after the crash.
"I saw exactly what Tom saw. I was near a stop light at the Marine Parkway
Bridge. First, the small explosion. The plane kept on going, tail intact,
then the big explosion and the plane nose-dived. The first thing I said
was:
'The bastards did it again.'"
For the NTSB to seriously speculate that the bloody tail fell off in the
face of so much evidence that it didn't happen is arrogant and treating us
all like a bunch of morons.
But NTSB spokesman Ted Lopatkiewicz said: "We don't have any evidence of an
explosion [after searching] the wreckage or from the cockpit recorder. It
doesn't mean it didn't happen."
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