Eerie posting on Airliners.net

[Steep Approach]

I notice that the thread on airliners.net to which we refer has been removed. All threads refering to this have also been closed.

..Perhaps it's time this thread was closed.

[crjo]

hello all...

As everyone on earth, I watched those videos with shock and horror...
Concerning the fact that the towers withstood those incredible collisions, it is true that they were designed to resist the impact of an 707. And they did this beautifully : they barely moved upon impact !!!
The reason they collapsed, though is because they were designed to resist "domestic" fires, a.k.a a fire that burns at about 800 °C... The kerosene fire that was the case here burned at more than 2000°C !!! it MELTED the supports !

no doubt those guys chose these airplanes carefully ...

Regards to all you americans out there !! we sympathize.

[dingducky]

i was emailed this:

I have no idea how people find these things out!
Here is something really strange:
Did you know that a flight number from one of the planes that hit one
of the two towers was Q33NY.
In MS Word, type in that flight number
Enlarge the font size to 26
Change the font to Wingdings

but i don't think that this is the real flight number

[smiling monkey]

It looks like MD-90 has been interviewed by the FBI by Special Agent Jim and is in the clear (so he tells us).
http://www.airliners.net/discussions...d.main/577229/

I never thought he had anything to do with it after having read his other posts.

But he does appear to be incredibly (unbelievably?) relaxed about the whole affair!

[Notso Fantastic]

Dingducky....URBAN MYTH WARNING! Please do not go spreading this! Check out: http://www.faa.gov/avr/aai/A_0912_N.txt
All the registrations were AA or UA. Someone has discovered a peculiarity, but it is not related to this incident!

[stagger]

Eric Darton, who has taught "media, technology and cultural studies at Hunter College and Fordham University," and "currently teaches writing at New York University" wrote a book entitled "Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York City's World Trade Center"

In an interview around the time of publication in 2000 he was asked how the WTC had changed since the 1993 bombing. He replied...

It has certainly transformed as a symbol. One great irony of the towers is that they were built to withstand a 747 slamming into them - the disaster scenario of a more "innocent" era. No one in the mid-'60s, when the buildings were designed, could have anticipated that thirty years later the threat would not come from a stray airplane - a symbol of the machine age gone awry - but from modernity's discontents: terrorists who knew the building's true vulnerability was in its basement. Fortunately they didn't know how to build a bomb that would do what they wanted.

I guess this goes to show that it's not a good idea to reply on someone who teaches "media, technology and cultural studies" when trying to assess the nature of the threat posed by terrorists.


Full interview here...

http://www.basicbooks.com/winter2000/017010/interview.ht ml

[ 19 September 2001: Message edited by: stagger ]