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Subject: Precautionary Principle
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 14:17:35 -0500
From: Jon Gentry jgentry@bigplanet.com
To: apfn@apfn.org
*911 and the Precautionary Principle: Aircraft Parts as a Clue to
their Identity*
/*by George Nelson
Colonel, USAF (ret.)*/
/The precautionary principle is based on the fact it is impossible
to prove a false claim. Failure to prove a claim does not
automatically make it false, but caution is called for, especially
in the case of a world-changing event like the alleged terror
attacks of September 11, 2001. The Bush administration has provided
no public evidence to support its claim that the terror attacks were
the work of Muslim extremists or even that the aircraft that struck
their respective targets on September 11 were as advertised. As I
will show below, it would be a simple matter to confirm that they
were - if they were. Until such proof is forthcoming, the opposite
claim must be kept in mind as a precaution against rushing to
judgment: the 911 hijackings were part of a black operation carried
out with the cooperation of elements in our government./
In July 1965 I had just been commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in
the U. S. Air Force after taking a solemn oath that I would protect
and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and
domestic, and that I would bear true faith and allegiance to the
same. I took that oath very seriously. It was my constant companion
throughout a thirty-year military career in the field of aircraft
maintenance.
As an additional duty, aircraft maintenance officers are
occasionally tasked as members of aircraft accident investigation
boards and my personal experience was no exception. In 1989 I
graduated from the Aircraft Mishap Investigation Course at the
Institute of Safety and Systems Management at the University of
Southern California. In addition to my direct participation as an
aircraft accident investigator, I reviewed countless aircraft
accident investigation reports for thoroughness and comprehensive
conclusions for the Inspector General, HQ Pacific Air Forces during
the height of the Vietnam conflict.
In all my years of direct and indirect participation, I never
witnessed nor even heard of an aircraft loss, where the wreckage was
accessible, that prevented investigators from finding enough hard
evidence to positively identify the make, model, and specific
registration number of the aircraft -- and in most cases the precise
cause of the accident. This is because every military and civilian
passenger-carrying aircraft have many parts that are identified for
safety of flight. That is, if any of the parts were to fail at any
time during a flight, the failure would likely result in the
catastrophic loss of aircraft and passengers. Consequently, these
parts are individually controlled by a distinctive serial number and
tracked by a records section of the maintenance operation and by
another section called plans and scheduling.
Following a certain number of flying hours or, in the case of
landing gears, a certain number of takeoff-and-landing cycles, these
critical parts are required to be changed, overhauled or inspected
by specialist mechanics. When these parts are installed, their
serial numbers are married to the aircraft registration numbers in
the aircraft records and the plans and scheduling section will
notify maintenance specialists when the parts must be replaced. If
the parts are not replaced within specified time or cycle limits,
the airplane will normally be grounded until the maintenance action
is completed. Most of these time-change parts, whether hydraulic
flight surface actuators , pumps, landing gears, engines or engine
components, are virtually indestructible. It would be impossible for
an ordinary fire resulting from an airplane crash to destroy or
obliterate all of those critical time-change parts or their serial
numbers. I repeat, impossible.
Considering the catastrophic incidents of September 11 2001, certain
troubling but irrefutable conclusions must be drawn from the known
facts. I get no personal pleasure or satisfaction from reporting my
own assessment of these facts.
*United Airlines Flight 93*
This flight was reported by the federal government to be a Boeing
757 aircraft, registration number N591UA, carrying 45 persons,
including four Arab hijackers who had taken control of the aircraft,
crashing the plane in a Pennsylvania farm field.
Aerial photos of the alleged crash site were made available to the
general public. They show a significant hole in the ground, but
private investigators were not allowed to come anywhere near the
crash site. If an aircraft crash caused the hole in the ground,
there would have literally hundreds of serially-controlled
time-change parts within the hole that would have proved beyond any
shadow of doubt the precise tail-number or identity of the aircraft.
However, the government has not produced any hard evidence that
would prove beyond a doubt that the specifically alleged aircraft
crashed at that site. On the contrary, it has been reported that the
aircraft, registry number N591UA, is still in operation.
*American Airlines Flight 11*
This flight was reported by the government to be a Boeing 767,
registration number N334AA, carrying 92 people, including five Arabs
who had hijacked the plane. This plane was reported to have crashed
into the north tower of the WTC complex of buildings.
Again, the government would have no trouble proving its case if only
a few of the hundreds of serially controlled parts had been
collected to positively identify the aircraft. A Boeing 767 landing
gear or just one engine would have been easy to find and identify.
*United Airlines Flight 175*
This flight was reported to be a Boeing 767, registration number
N612UA, carrying 65 people, including the crew and five hijackers.
It reportedly flew into the south tower of the WTC.
Once more, the government has yet to produce one serially controlled
part from the crash site that would have dispelled any questions as
to the identity of the specific airplane.
*American Airlines Flight 77*
This was reported to be a Boeing 757, registration number N644AA,
carrying 64 people, including the flight crew and five hijackers.
This aircraft, with a 125-foot wingspan, was reported to have
crashed into the Pentagon, leaving an entry hole no more than 65
feet wide.
Following cool-down of the resulting fire, this crash site would
have been very easy to collect enough time-change equipment within
15 minutes to positively identify the aircraft registry. There was
apparently some aerospace type of equipment found at the site but no
attempt was made to produce serial numbers or to identify the
specific parts found. Some of the equipment removed from the
building was actually hidden from public view.
*Conclusion*
The government alleges that four wide-body airliners crashed on the
morning of September 11 2001, resulting in the deaths of more than
3,000 human beings, yet not one piece of hard aircraft evidence has
been produced in an attempt to positively identify any of the four
aircraft. On the contrary, it seems only that all potential evidence
was deliberately kept hidden from public view. The hard evidence
would have included hundreds of critical time-change aircraft items,
plus security videotapes that were confiscated by the FBI
immediately following each tragic episode.
With all the evidence readily available at the Pentagon crash site,
any unbiased rational investigator could only conclude that a Boeing
757 did not fly into the Pentagon as alleged. Similarly, with all
the evidence available at the Pennsylvania crash site, it was most
doubtful that a passenger airliner caused the obvious hole in the
ground and certainly not the Boeing 757 as alleged. Regarding the
planes that allegedly flew into the WTC towers, it is only just
possible that heavy aircraft were involved in each incident, but no
evidence has been produced that would add credence to the
government's theoretical version of what actually caused the total
destruction of the buildings, let alone proving the identity of the
aircraft. That is the problem with the government's 911 story. It is
time to apply the precautionary principle.
As painful and heartbreaking as was the loss of innocent lives and
the lingering health problems of thousands more, a most troublesome
and nightmarish probability remains that so many Americans appear to
be involved in the most heinous conspiracy in our country's history.
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