tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post467668184664209238..comments2024-03-15T06:02:30.623+00:00Comments on The Lockerbie Case: Megrahi's trialRobert Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03606456028430261555noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-13477042636890466142014-01-21T20:18:49.774+00:002014-01-21T20:18:49.774+00:00Yup.Yup.Quincey Riddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09196728122070096913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-42742265425101198532014-01-20T14:55:38.048+00:002014-01-20T14:55:38.048+00:00His fingers and toes are turning black and falling...His fingers and toes are turning black and falling off?Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849975010197698907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-70548227177533037682014-01-20T11:11:06.045+00:002014-01-20T11:11:06.045+00:00Dear Dave,
I repeat here, entirely for my own con...Dear Dave,<br /><br />I repeat here, entirely for my own convenience, what I said to you on an earlier thread.<br /><br />"The thing is that, albeit that I know you respect JFM and its works (though I am a tad confused as to why given your own theory regarding a hold door failure as having been responsible for the downing of 103), the galactic chasm between us lies in your apparent assertion that there was clearly no bomb despite the fact that there is a petalated hole in the fuselage at an area of the hold that is peppered with explosive reside. Obviously no bomb there then and it was all down to a structural failure on one of the safest planes on the planet.<br /><br />"Frankly, this is as certifiably bonkers as Patrick Haseldine's delusions that the South African government decided it would be a jolly good wheeze to murder 259 folk just to get at one of them! Now think, really carefully, do you really want to end up in the same padded cell as Patrick?"<br /><br />Plus, you really must get some pathologists round to your baker's to test whether or not the grain used in your bread is contaminated with Ergot. You are showing all the signs, old bean.<br /><br />Pip, pip,<br />Robert.<br /><br />Quincey Riddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09196728122070096913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-68731577864743276972014-01-19T10:42:09.814+00:002014-01-19T10:42:09.814+00:00See-saw hai kwai fhang!
"Playing the violin f...See-saw hai kwai fhang!<br />"Playing the violin for an ox"<br />(Thai proverb)<br /><br />But well written, Rolfe, as always.<br />SMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13272238187226269250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-15105198247821825532014-01-17T15:50:23.721+00:002014-01-17T15:50:23.721+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.bazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02338162927520376063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-21605013501849183322014-01-16T14:32:28.461+00:002014-01-16T14:32:28.461+00:00"It is glaringly evident that at least six na..."It is glaringly evident that at least six nations were involved in the downing of flight Pan Am 103." Well not to me.bazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02338162927520376063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-30549282346826201532014-01-15T09:45:21.178+00:002014-01-15T09:45:21.178+00:00[Rolfe looks round for a handy wall to bash her he...[Rolfe looks round for a handy wall to bash her head against.]<br /><br />A lot less than the terrorist attack cost them. The investigation cost the governments of the US and the UK many many millions. Planes crash. Concorde, Air France 447 (which was partly due to the design of the Airbus), the list is endless. And there is a reason why everyone breathes a heartfelt sigh of relief when it's established it was an accident and not terrorism.<br /><br />Dave, read my lips. <i>Maid of the Seas</i> was brought down by a charge of high explosive inside a suitcase loaded in the bottom front left-hand corner of baggage container AVE4041. That is as certain as the fact that the sun rose this morning.<br /><br />The physical evidence is absolutely compelling. Incontrovertible. It is absolutely impossible for it to have been faked. The entire carcass of the plane, brought in piecemeal from all over the landscape, reassembles to show exactly where the fuselage was breached and how.<br /><br />The very very specific damage to one specific part of the airframe ("pitting and sooting"), and to that baggage container alone of all the containers on the plane, and to a couple of dozen (out of several hundred) of the suitcases recovered, demonstrates this without any doubt whatsoever.<br /><br />It is <i>impossible</i> for anyone to have faked all that. For any purpose, and even with prior knowledge, quite frankly. Let alone to cover up a simple accident with no warning at all.<br /><br />It is well understood how the expolsive charge caused the rapid break-up of the plane. There is no mystery about it at all.<br /><br />You may ask, if it's so clear, why does John Barry Smith claim something else? I have no idea. He is one person, and it is clear he has not had access to all the evidence the we have access to. He quotes sentences out of context, without apparently being aware of the evidence that contradicts the inferences he is drawing. He has a long-standing bee in his bonnet about a fault in the 747, but whether or not there is any truth in that, that was not what brought down <i>Maid of the Seas</i>.<br /><br />Boeing 747s are still flying, too, and they are not falling out of the sky every other week because of a fault that has been covered up in order to avoid dealing with it.<br /><br />Accidents happen, and sometimes they are due to inherent faults in machinery. People and companies deal with this <i>all the time</i>. It's orders of magnitude less costly and disruptive than an international terrorist hunt.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849975010197698907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-55126784904830192742014-01-15T00:00:41.913+00:002014-01-15T00:00:41.913+00:00How much would it cost Boeing and US if a known de...How much would it cost Boeing and US if a known design fault was responsible for Pan Am 103?Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213240619989073000noreply@blogger.com