By Matt Schofield, The Kansas City Star editorial page columnist
French Defense Minister Herve Morin Tuesday refused to rule out terrorism as the cause for the Monday disappearance of Air France flight 447 in the mid-Atlantic.
Speaking on Europe Radio 1, he said "We can't rule out a terrorist act since terrorism is the main threat to Western democracies, but at this time we don't have any element whatsoever indicating that such an act could have caused this accident."
It would be surprising at this point if terrorism had anything to do with the flight tragedy. No one has made a claim of taking the plane down, at least not publically. As the entire point of terrorism is to create terror, it seems to go against logic.
But the disappearance goes against logic in many ways. This is the plane crash that we're told simply doesn't happen. It was mid flight, at cruising altitude.
It didn't occur on take off, or landing, which renders useless the whole "count to 85 seconds" rule (which is supposed to reassure nervous fliers, as that is when planes most commonly crash.
The distress signals showed some electrical failures, and a loss in cabin pressure, but not to a degree that it was immediately obvious what happened.
The flight was moving through a monstrous thunderhead, but aeroautical experts seemed dubious about that as the cause (many have noted that airliners routinely take lightning strikes, and without disastrous outcomes.
The Airbus was a newish one. The pilot was an experienced one. Even the flight seemed a routin-ish one. Until it didn't. And now searchers are racing out to a position in the Atlantic above about 9,000 feet of water.
I can understand the French reaction, sending a team to investigate any possible terrorist link. At least that would make some sense, would explain why 228 people died.
It's an odd thought, really: A terror attack would give some level of comfort to fliers, because at least there would be a reason.









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"kept from view"
You mean like W's military records?
The sophomoric suggestion that the president is a crackhead doesn't rattle my cage at all. It just undermines the credibility of the person saying it.
why?
Kcgrh, why would you suggest that the president is a crackhead? Tell me, what is the point of doing that?
Why a Crackhead...
Maybe it's because he has been and continues to hide his writings while he was in college. Maybe because his book talked about experimenting as a young adult. Maybe just to rattle you libs' cages....
I suspect mostly the latter, but we will never know what he did bacause it is kept from public view, isn't it Big Steve???
N.C.
Darroby makes reference a couple of times to "Obama (aka N.C.)" What is the meaning of this? I'm mystified.
I'll Take a Guess Big Steve
newly-elected crackhead?????
kcgrunt
also a dumb post. Jeez.
You Should Know Flop...
You set the standard for dumb with some of your crap....
I don't think so...
Terrorists would have been all over the media claiming that they were responsible for downing an Air France plane.
For those who fly, you know how dangerous flying in a bad storm is.
I feel at a terrible loss for the families and friends of all those on flight 447.
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The Star has been too busy..
Trying to make Tiller a 'saint and martyr', and bowing down to BO (aka N.C)'s make buddies with the islamists, and 'hey I was raised muslim' agenda, to report on the young soldier gunned down in cold blood, by an ISLAMIST - a recent convert to ISLAM who may not have been acting alone. There is an agenda here, both on the part of the media and on the part of the Obama (aka N.C.) administration to cover up both a known terrorist act on U.S. soil against a member of our military, and a probable terrorist act against a French aircraft.
darroby
man, what a stupid post.
Sorry Interpuck
You are a fool and I seriously doubt you are capable of thinking for yourself, you are apparently only capable of hurling around the same insults day after day and calling names.
The murder of the young soldier was a terrorist act, and the terrorist IS a recent islamist convert by his own admission, and there is evidence (if you ever bothered to read anything but this liberal rag, and watch something other than msnbc you might have seen the information) that he may not have acted alone. The Star has been trying to bury the story since the official move by BO now appears to be to say that little Barry was raised muslim, and is buddying up with muslims in the Middle East. Instead they are spending huge amounts of effort and space trying to cannonize Tiller, and demonize anyone who is pro-life (again pro-life means pro-life NO MURDER ALLOWED).
Whether this plane was bombed by terrorists or destroyed in some bizzare way by lightning may never be known, especially if they can't locate the black boxes. But, since there were bomb threats, it's resonable that terrorism should be considered.
[chuckle]
a fool I may be, if only because I continue to spare the time and energy to point out the ridiculousness of your posts. :-)
Hey, Matt: did you miss the Islamist in Arkansas?????????????/
What is going on with you people at the Star???
Did you actually miss the fact that a self-professed recent convert to Islam just KILLED an American army recruiter in Arkansas and severely wounded another?????????????
Here's a video of an interview with the dead American soldier's father that the Star can't be bothered to link to:
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/06/private-william-longs-father-in-interview-with-little-rocks-katv.html
Instead, you're floating a completely speculative theory without any real proof that somehow a man-made disaster was involved (Matt - didn't you see that memo where terrorism was replaced with that mewling, pathetic news-speak phrase???)? Could terrorism, though, have been responsible? This is weird - the Star almost always ignores this possibility, just as they've ignored the Islamic connection to the Arkansas shootings. Well, of course it could have been, but then that would be anathema to the good liberals here at the Red Star who spew out stories sympathetic to the Muslim cause - exactly as Barb did tonight:
http://voices.kansascity.com/node/4747
Are all of you people so hopelessly blinded by your liberal bias that you cannot see the REAL enemies around you???
And this one, Matt, is absolutely unjustified:
"It's an odd thought, really: A terror attack would give some level of comfort to fliers, because at least there would be a reason."
So now an act of God (or chance of Nature) would give less comfort to loved ones than thinking a terrorist had brought them down.
How do you people live here, thinking this way? Why haven't you already moved out? I'm serious - you must really dislike this country and the people here.
--> Global warming is the new eugenics - its proponents are reality deniers <--
Hey Matt, remember Pierre Salinger and Flight 800?
This argument didn't work too well for him either.
Very unlikely
I understand the need to know what caused this tragedy, and I trust experts will someday be able to explain exactly what happened (hopefully sooner than later). However, bringing terrorism into this seems unfounded. I don’t think it will give anyone closure but just the opposite effect. There would be more unnecessary anguish, confusion and ultimately unwarranted state of alarm. Historically South America has not been a target from any terrorist group. I would not even make any assumptions or wild guesses until the plane or wreckage is found.