There was a major airplane crash in Queens in 2002 and I never heard...

[Tweed]

about it on the news. The site seems to be reliable. It's called Plane Crash Info.com. My girlfriend found a this website and sent it on to me. Apparently there was a crash in Queens, NY that killed some 200 people. I NEVER heard about this. Was this covered by the media and I just didn't hear about it? Were we 'protected' from this information? What's going on here? http://www.planecrashinfo.com/w011112.htm.

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. Uh... Are you serious?

This was a huge story.

[Tweed]

7. I was taking six college courses at the time, so that must explain it

Man, sometime you just get into the books so much.

[Magrittes Pipe]

9. They cut into programming on all the networks...

...that said, if your head was in the books, who knows? I know my college years were spent in a sort of a bubble. ;)

[Beaverhausen]

2. yeah- put down the bong and pay attention

just kidding. But yes- this was a big story.

[goodboy]

3. Big Story...

i'm surprised you missed it...where were you?

[iamjoy]

4. I Freaked Out!

when I heard about it.
My Mom and Step-Dad were in the air at that time flying out of O'Hare. Of course, the media was all about saying they didn't know if it was terrorism and I was frantic.

Stupid, stupid, stupid of me buying into the media fearmongering.

[Gothic Sponge]

5. It was a big story here

I live near Queens....Maybe it was only on the local news...?

[Tweed]

8. Local news is possible, both my girlfriend and I live in Chicago

It might have been headline news for two days and gone away. Maybe something something was going on in Chicago that rivaled it, although I can't imagine what.

[ronnykmarshall]

12. I wasn't just local

We heard about it here in California. It was the lead story.

[unblock]

6. where do you live?

it was all over the news here in new jersey.
come to think of it, i get very little of my news from local sources.

i'm sure this was covered on cnn, the networks, the nytimes, and democratic underground at a minimum.

[fudge stripe cookays]

10. It was big here...

I thought..."Shit. Here we go again."

Another good site to check is www.airdisaster.com

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[Beware the Beast Man]

11. I remember it

It was a few weeks after 9/11, not in 2002. I live in Ohio, and it was all over the networks. It was news, most definitely, but since it happened so shortly after 9/11, I think it was mostly forgotten.

[bigwillq]

13. That's right Oct. 2001

I believe it was Columbus Day weekend.

That was the first time I had been to New York since 9/11.

Went to Manhattan early in the morning. As soon as we got to the place in the city that we were headed to, the radio announced the crash.

I thought we were being attacked again.

It was a little crazy at first with people not knowing what was going on. My mom called me like 1,000! times.


I am sorry for all those people who lost their lives but on the other hand glas it wasn't another attack.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

14. 2001, not 2002.

It was in November... I remember hearing that the plane crashed in Queens not far from one of the airport... My parents live roughly 10-15 minutes from both LaGuardia and JFK. I was absolutely petrified until I heard where the plane had actually gone down. They were okay. It was a scary, not fun, awful day.

[flamingyouth]

15. It was Veterans Day 2001

Exactly two months after the Sept. 11 attacks - it was a huge story (and I live in Seattle). I think it was about that time that I went on TV news hiatus - I just couldn't take anymore.

[bigwillq]

17. That's right it was Veterans Day not

Columbus Day which I originally thought.

I knew it was one of those holidays because I had off from college and we went into the city that day.

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. It was in November of 2001

I don't remember any big crash in 2002, and I remember every disaster that happened in NYC during that year.

I'll tell ya one thing - all was pure anxiety in my office on that day. My group was in a temperory office across from the NYSE, and of course we were all tense all the time anyway, but when we heard the news our whole group went immediately into "go to cnn.com and keep hitting refresh and whoever gets a new scrap announces it to the group". That went on for about two hours, until we heard that it wasn't a terra attack, but work was still pretty slow for another couple hours. By afternoon, we were pretty much back to normal. Which, for that time, was still a state of unhealthy anxiety.

Yep - I'll always remember that day, and the INCREDIBLE fear we all felt when we heard the news.

I went out at lunchtime and walked over to the park just to make sure that the Statue of Liberty was still there. An activity which I did every other day or so for months, until we moved into permanent digs in midtown.

[latebloomer]

18. I still suspect it was terrorism

just because of the way they IMMEDIATELY got on the air and said it was DEFINITELY NOT terrorism!

[fudge stripe cookays]

19. Anyone ever heard of this one? Air Transat?

http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/ts236/photo.shtml

reprehensor and I were watching a documentary about this at his parents' place last time we were in Alberta.

SCARY AS HELL!!!

I'd never heard of it before, I guess because it was a Canadian airliner and there were no casualties.

HALFWAY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC there was a fuel leak, but the pilot and co-pilot couldn't tell for sure. They shifted the fuel in the one tank to the tank on the other side to balance it, but it ended up FLYING OUT THE SIDE OF THE PLANE even faster!!!

They were not quite to Europe when they completely RAN OUT OF FUEL OVER THE OCEAN!!!!! They showed recreations of all these people on this plane just getting very quiet, praying, and knowing their number was up, as this plane coasted I forget how many miles to reach Portugal. I had never been so scared for a bunch of people completely helpless about what was about to happen to them.

They landed really hard and popped all the tires, and had to pray that they didn't overshoot this runway and go off the cliff at the other end.

But every one of these people lived. What a freaking miracle.

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[aint_no_life_nowhere]

20. What was the official cause of the crash?

It might be relevant because, after all, Bush supporters have been gloating over the fact that there haven't been any terrorist acts in the U.S. since 911 (if you overlook the Anthrax murders).

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

21. Thrust reversers coming on in flight

I believe it, judging from the debris field.

The hard part about it was the neighborhood it crashed in had lots of FDNY families who were still grieving from 9/11, in fact not all of the bodies had been found at that point.

[fudge stripe cookays]

22. I thought they said that....

it was the wake turbulence from another flight that had gone before it.

They were talking about putting more regs on how close planes could be to each other as far as takeoffs and landings, because there wasn't enough time in between or something.

[GOPisEvil]

23. I heard wake turbulence, too.

:shrug: