An American Airlines Boeing 767 is reported to have crashed in the Queens District of New York.
Rudolph Giuliani is reported to be joining rescue services at the scene.
― DJ Martian, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― chris, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Nick, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
also reports 290 - 350 on board, 4 buildings crashed into, on Rockeraway Beach, Queens (sp?)
All New York airports shut.
Level 1 emergency declared.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Geoff, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Pete, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Ugh.
― Tom, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Paul, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Michael Daddino, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Hm indeed...
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_447435.html
sorry can't do the html
All that from CNN.com if that helps.
― Sarah, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Samantha, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
The organisation earlier stated that the cause of the crash is not known, although there are reports the jet suffered engine failure.
― suzy, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
thanks tony.
Up and running.
― stevo, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Jonnie, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Sam, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Spot on Nick.
Tech problems that will down a flight generally happen within minutes of takeoff. This looks to be the case.
― Kerry, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Due to unprecedented demand we have now switched to the low-graphics version of the site in order to be able to bring you all the latest developments.
BBC is back
David Learmount of Flight International told BBC New Online it was very rare for an Airbus A300 to crash on take-off in good weather, but not completely impossible.
― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― mark s, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― fritz, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
I think whatever the answer is we are fiddling with such low probabilities that they are all pretty plausible right now (ie prob of "engine falling off" etc).
Engine actually designed to 'fall off'/be jettisoned in event of fire (to stop damage spreading) to fusilage/wing. Unfortunately it appears that the wing was already damaged by the time that engine came off.
If an engine has come off, there will be other severe damage - hydraulics, fuel lines etc - virtually no chance to fly a plane in this situation. Also, engines don't FALL OFF! This has to be an explosion - could be localized in the engine itself. Could be a bird strike? Terrorism seems possible, but unlikely - HOW could they blow- up an engine in flight?
― Dr. C, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Ed, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― katie, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Madchen, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
This is almost certainly impossible, by the way. The crash site is located just across Jamaica Bay from the Kennedy Airport runways. We're talking a matter of a minute or two after takeoff, too short a time to have communication to and fro. And there aren't F-15s routinely cruising New York airspace, at least there weren't until a half hour after the crash (you know when they're overhead, as they're deafeningly loud).
― Benjamin, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― james, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Why? I'm not saying you're wrong, but are you hoping, or do you have some evidence? I haven't heard any, either way.
As for combat air patrols: you can hear them, they're distinctive, and they're hella loud. I'm saying that I wasn't hearing any, and certainly not within the kind of range that would allow them to make a difference within a half minute, a couple hundred feet off the ground (i.e., close enough to shoot down a huge plane just over a urban residential area).
More than ever, it's high time to point out that, while a occasional check to a major media outlet is a good idea, major media addiction is not. Constant reinforcement of fear is part of their marketing plan.. sad to say. Fear is great journalism, if profit is the end result.
Hmmm, I sound like a McCarthy song.
― Brian MacDonald, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
It's funny that these amateur media critiques are essentially the same thing the Bush admin. is saying. Even in cases where a mechanical failure was the evident cause if a plane crash, I have never heard anything, really, ruled out after a mere few hours. The US gov't emphasis on massaging investor confidence and reassurance of the public (Keep Spending Money!) has been a cause of wrong-headed reassurance before in the past month or so-- if you recall, Tom Ridge opined that the first respiratory anthrax death in October might well have been due to a visit to a North Carolina forest. What's motivating a quick denial among certain ILErs?
― maryjanedownthelane, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
So to distill the question: why, given a lack of adequate information, decide one way or the other?
If you're an NTSB investigator, you certainly need to have a hypothesis to disprove, and I suppose they have more data on accidents than bombings. That's not reassuring, though I suppose I'm not looking for reassurance.
In this case, because the majority of plane accidents involve mechanical failure rather than terrorism -- this leads me not to a flat-out *decision*, Ben (to use your choice of words), but a current supposition.
If it's the idea that the news media are driving hysteria to increase ratings, I don't buy it. Of course the main news sources do a poor job, but CNN didn't sell any commercials today, and furthermore, talk of terrorism was mostly absent from what news I saw (not only CNN, but every channel in NYC has been covering the story continuously). Brian's theory is a pretty conventional take on the mainstream news media, but it doesn't cohere with at least what I've seen and heard today.
My last statement was really just a cynical, tired burp... I didn't intend it to be any sort of grand proclamation -- but I am so sick of drowning in reports based on hysteria, pro or anti States, that having to endure another wave of that storm yet again prompted me to be a little bitchy this time. That's all. I'll keep my words to myself next time.
Of course, the misery worsens when vindictive leftists tell Americans that they <i>deserve</i> to live in fear because of the vile actions of their government. But no one here would do that, right?
The most fearful person I know is my friend, a Sikh girl working at the BBC. She was worried that this was a perpetuating cycle and I had to spend ages talking her down from such a paranoid position.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― DG, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― phil, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)