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Queens Air Tragedy
Something is not entirely right about the recent announcements from aviation officials
that yesterday's tragedy was simply an accident waiting to happen. Crud talks about something that matters for once.

13/11/01

QUEENS AIR TRAGEDY

Never before have federal safety officials concluded so profusely that their engines were too unsafe to fly. In fact, with something of a kamikaze fervour every senior aviation official is announcing not only that it's entirely possible that they were to blame for an accident, but that there's absolutely no question that their faulty, inadequate engines were to blame. In fact, you get the impression you'd offend them if you were to suggest otherwise.

But then one faulty engine is hardly going to dent US confidence in security, or imbalance a nation already living on its nerves.

One faulty engine is hardly going to deliver the final blow to a fragile economic status just as it was showing some signs of recovery.

One faulty engine isn't going to hammer the final nail into airline travel.

One faulty engine isn't going to jeopardise faith in an already tested presidency, and a beleaguered intelligence service.

In Wall Street prices fell by 198 points in the immediate aftermath of the Queens air tragedy, before bouncing back later in the day upon the delivery of a verdict that had been barely assessed before being made public. But then the weight of impact was perhaps feared more upon the insurers of this industry than it ever was by any of those on the ground itself.

They assert with a queer, unfathomable relish that they had discovered an 'unsafe condition' in the type of engine that powered this kind of airliner a month or so ago. In fact they suggest they had even started moving toward tougher inspections.

This is a conundrum in itself. A month or so after the most heinous airline disasters in the aviation history - and already under scrutiny and pressure to close security issues - they decide to defer closer inspection for at least another two months in time. Do they seriously expect us to believe this?

With consumer confidence already at an all time low, is it even conceivable that they were prepared to take further risks? Does this sound like American Airlines? Wasn't insurance already becoming something of a delicate and complex issue?

"The left engine that apparently failed in Monday's crash had been overhauled recently, while the right engine was due for an overhaul soon"

Well, okay, if you talking like that, my old man's a banana.

"If we find out it is a tragic accident, everybody will give a collective sigh of relief, which really shows how much stress we're under since Sept. 11,'' said Darryl Jenkins, director of George Washington University's Aviation Institute.

Now you're being straight with us, Darryl. Care to elaborate on that one?

There's also really no point in mentioning the significance of the day politically, or the measure of recent warnings that made credible such another attack. So I'm prepared to let that one slide. Nor is it worth mentioning the fact that it has occurred at a less than ideal point in the victory roll out of the US aided changes in Kabul. I certainly wouldn't want to marr what was an otherwise successful response to the September 11th attacks. I - like everybody it would seem - like a nice clean story. And besides, an attack such as this would have made us all look less than credible. But like I say, I'll let those things slide.

But why if it was a text-book designed, accident-about-to-happen, was the captain of this doomed airliner unable to cope with the emergency? Since the A300 can fly on only one of it's two engines, why didn't this give this more than qualified pilot enough time to put his well rehearsed procedures into effect and land safely?

The answer is simple.

The plane up until the point of explosion was in perfect working order; right up until the point that the bomb exploded on the wing of the aircraft and set those dangerous fuel tanks alight.

This isn't conspiracy theory. This isn't imagination. These are entirely reasonable possibilities.

We might not want to believe it. We might not want what seems to come next. But forewarned is at least forearmed. And what's more, at least it's the truth.

And you know what? What's so much worse than not knowing if it's the result of an accident or terrorist activity, is not knowing safely or not whether your own elected government are willing to cover it up.

American citizens deserve much better. The victims of the World Trade disaster deserve much better. And yesterday's victims most certainly deserve much better.

Don't know about you, but I think there's someone still out there on the grassy-knoll. And what's more, the gun's still smoking...

All our thoughts go out to those people involved in the Queens Air Tragedy and our prayers for everyone in New York.

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