Reply #69: hard to trust the NTSB- consider samantha smith's crash [View All]

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head guy is an old bush/nixon guy- from another post:
"Also, NTSB (now acting) Chair is Mark Rosenker.  Rosenker most recently served as GW Bush's head of the White House Military Office 2001-2005.  He also served in the George HW Bush Administration.  And is a retired USAF Reserve General (entered the service in '69). "
"In 1972, Rosenker was able to be a member of Nixon's Campaign to Reelect the President, also known as CREEP. Since this campaign, Rosenker participated in every presidential campaign to date."

the NTSB probably doesn't consider assassination by plane- there are too many other obscure possibilities to choose from. take the samantha smith (the anti-reagan/star wars PR disaster) and her death by plane crash in 1985 at the Auburn -Lewiston Airport, Maine in a Beech 99. (see the ref to samantha in sheryl seal's list of possible assass by plane http://www.unknownnews.net/cdd1120.html)

Experienced flying writer J Mac McLellan reviewed the crash in Flying magazine (May 1987)- " In the end the NTSB made the obvious determination that the probable cause of the accident was the captain's continuation of an unstabilized approach, resulting in a descent below the glidescope. Contributing to the unstabilized approach was the radar controller's issuance of and the pilot's acceptance of a nonstandard vector that resulted in an excessive intercept with the localizer." It ended up being blamed on the pilots. He goes on "So all we know is that this flight crew flew one of the worst approaches ever documented, but we don't have a single hint as to why." and "We can only guess what happened on that dark night". "What could possibly have caused this crew to become so confused on what should have been a simple IFR approach? Despite comprehensive study of the airplane"..."the NTSB could not determine what went wrong". "The reconstruction of the flight path reveals a course so erratic it hardly qualifies as unstable". The NTSB report mentions NAV/COM and altimeter problems as possible sources of error contributing to the unstable approach.

Both altimeters were found with inaccurate settings. The NTSB couldn't figure out how this happened. When the plane hit trees at 345 ft the captain's altimeter would have ben showing an altitude of 480-544ft. Also, the No 1 Navigation/Communication transceiver was replaced the day before the accident. For considerable lengths of the 100nm trip the plane drifted east up to 2nm off the desired course. Speeds were very erratic.

But as long as murder by plane is considered tin foil territory the NTSB would not suggest murder even if the possibility and motive are real, even if they wanted to. americans need to push for a real congressional investigation of connell's death as a possible hit and not leave it to the NTSB. until then more political problems may be solved by this method and labeled routinely as accidents. and representatives and others will continue to be intimidated.