Originally Posted by
mike734
Rickair7777 why would you spend one second rebutting my post? What is your interest in the incident? Are you opposed to re-examining the evidence? What's more likely, accidentally shooting down an airliner or the government trying to cover up shooting down an airliner?
Quite defensive. You made a post on the internet. What'd did you expect?
I'm just relaying some of the things I've heard over the years that make me doubt the overheated fuel story. You are the kind of voice that seeks to silence those who raise legitimate questions. How about you shut up for a while and stop opposing rational inquiry. Maybe we will all learn something.
I heard we didn't land on the moon.
Couple things though before I go. Comparing the exploding KC-135s to TWA 800 is like comparing airline safety to military safety. (Hmmm, that's a good point).
Really? Answering the "well no aircraft have ever blown up due to empty fuel tanks!" with; "actually, boeing aircraft HAVE blown up before due to empty fuel tanks, in fact, it's happened multiple times"-was a pretty good rebuttal if you ask me. Is military maintenance the same as commercial? Maybe not, but both are extremely complex for these types of aircraft and all the systems have to interact just right. If you were trying to say that aircraft can not crash if they pass some 20 year test, then you are sorely mistaken. I'm not sure what you're point is here actually, but I think comparing a similar relevant situation is a good call.
Conspiracy theory's aside. These things wouldn't get traction if reasonable questions received reasonable answers. Hopefully if this incident is investigated again shills like Kallstrom will not be able to shout people down.
And therein lies the real problem. No one wants to believe a fuel tank exploded and took out an airliner full of people that included a 3 minute "death ride" to the ground. It's not emotionally satisfying. So what do people do? They make up something that "seems" right to them. It's a classic defense mechanism that allows us to keep functioning in the world and cope with stress. Unfortunately, there are not always answers that you will like, and you have to get over that. At some point, you have to shut down people like this, because it keeps getting worse and worse and out of hand.