On this day in history . . .This from the
“747 Rams Window at Airport [title]
“An American Airlines Boeing 747 jetliner plowed through a plate glass window at
An airline spokesman said there were no injuries in the incident which occurred shortly after
The spokesman said Flight 11 had just arrived from
The force of the impact pushed a large supporting beam about two feet into the nose section of the airliner, the spokesman said.
The spokesman added that damage to the intricate radar equipment carried in the nose of the plane was not immediately known. The cause of the accident was under investigation.”
Harking back to that odd statement by Dr. Condoleezza Rice that nobody could have foreseen airplanes being used as weapons to crash into buildings – it has already been amply pointed out that, in fact, government personnel among other individuals had anticipated aircraft’s being used exactly thus. Beyond the specific incidents, there is also the general point that anything that can be crashed accidentally into a building can be deliberately crashed into one. This country, land of abundance, has a proud history of craft crashing into buildings – cars, trucks, delivery vans, single-engine planes, jets, helicopters, motorcycles . . . you name it.
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