Comments on: Terror Over Greece?

By: PunditGuy

PunditGuy — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:22:42 +0000

Terrorism Ruled Out in Greek Air Crash

Two individuals who were seen by F-16 fighter jet pilots were ID’d as crew members of the doomed flight. A trained pilot standing in as cabin crew and his air hostess girlfriend appear to have been the two people seen by Greek air force pilots tr…

By: Miss O'Hara

Miss O'Hara — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:32:28 +0000

It is a horrible tragedy, but…well, I’m glad (if that’s the right word) to see that I’m not the only one wondering if there is something beneath the surface here. Of course, it looks like it really was just an air pressure problem, so I doubt we’ll ever know. How devastating for those whose family died, though. So, so sad.

By: Dkelsmith

Dkelsmith — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:49:53 +0000

Mark La Roi, perhaps you are right. I hadn’t even thought of that.

By: Policy Hawk

Policy Hawk — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 04:13:59 +0000

Also, they could be sore at Greece for holding the 2004 Olympics (and frustrated that they were unable to sabotage that event)

By: Mark La Roi

Mark La Roi — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 03:27:54 +0000

What a horrible tragedy. Dkelsmith, it’s actually mroe advantageous to terrorists to strike at completely innocent, uninfluential people because that renders the popluace thinking “They could hit anybody at anytime” instead of leaving anyone feeling safe because they aren’t “anybody important.”

By: Dkelsmith

Dkelsmith — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:53:18 +0000

I kind of thought that it could have been terrorists, but I also thought, “Why Greece”? I also thought about Payne Stewart the golfer’s plane that had the same thing happen a few years ago. Additionally, I figured that if terrorists wanted a plane to crash that there would have been someone of importance on board, or it would have crashed into something of importance/relevance. But, in this day and age…who knows?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:48:55 +0000

Based upon news reports so far, it doesn’t seem particularly odd to me. “Unidentified” seems perfectly reasonable…could you really expect a pilot in one of those F16s to look into the cockpit and see two people he actually knew? “Hey! That’s my neighbors, Greco and Aneke!” I don’t think so.

What they were doing, according to news reports following retrieval of the black box, was attempting to get the plane off of autopilot.

Anyway, I read the term “odd” to be a synonym for “suspicious”. Am I right? Is that what you wanted to convey? If so, what is suspicious about it? Enquiring minds want to know! Or did you mean odd in the sense that it’s odd for a child to attend school with a shampoo mohawk, or something?

By: brotherbrown

brotherbrown — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:57:34 +0000

Ooops, sorry, just read that.

By: La Shawn

La Shawn — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:55:09 +0000

It was a lie:

http://tinyurl.com/amuum

By: brotherbrown

brotherbrown — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:53:28 +0000

Oh my.

It has to be difficult to speculate on plane crashes. I have heard that a passenger sent a text message to friend or relative commenting about the freezing cold.