Eminent domain threats, millions of taxpayer dollars, and tackiness are all reasons to oppose the forthcoming federal Flight 93 memorial.
For the details, read my op-ed from a Pennsylvania newspaper near the site.
Eminent domain threats, millions of taxpayer dollars, and tackiness are all reasons to oppose the forthcoming federal Flight 93 memorial.
For the details, read my op-ed from a Pennsylvania newspaper near the site.
Previous post: Who Owns Water?
Next post: If Men Were Angels
{ 5 comments }
The best part is that after Kelo, the government could take the property for “Economic Benefit” when the property will have a reduction in overall economic benefit. Ironic huh?
How much land are they trying to grab here? I think I would fence off outsiders until someone came up with the money to pay for security and insurance.
Well said J.H. Huebert.
I am trying to put this as gently as possible and I beg your pardon if you may find this offensive but it has to be said. Surely you (at this blog) had to have found out at least the basic details of the Shanksville incident which brings me to my question: Doesn’t it seem more than a little unbelievable (actually downright preposterous) that a Boeing 757 would take off for a coast-to-coast flight carrying such a tiny amount of passengers?
The Flight 93 memorial site states the same passenger figures heard everywhere else: “All 33 passengers and seven crew members were killed.â€
http://www.honorflight93.org/story/
Thirty-three passengers? We aren’t talking about a small business jet but a Boeing 757 airliner. It isn’t as if a Boeing 757 will only hold fifty or so passengers either. The website Airliners.net which gives specifications on commercial airliner types tells us that: “Typical passenger arrangements vary from 178 two class (16 first & 162 economy), or 202 (12 first & 190 economy) or 208 (12 first and 196 economy) or 214 to 239 in all economy class.â€
http://www.airliners.net/aircraft-data/stats.main?id=101
So we are talking about at minimum a Boeing 757 being able to carry one hundred and seventy-eight passengers. Let’s assume Flight 93 was of the configuration to carry “only†178 passengers. Meaning a hundred and forty-five seats were empty. I’m sorry but NO AIRLINE IN THE WORLD is going to have an airliner take off almost empty to ferry 33 ticket holding passengers from one coast of the U.S. to the other. It just doesn’t happen in the real world and here’s why: It would be catastrophically unprofitable. Remember that airline companies are a business and nothing more. They aren’t a charity or a government-sponsored free ride service. They are in business to make a profit for their shareholders and it would be absolutely LUDICROUS for them to waste enormous amounts of money on the fuel, on the salaries of their ground crew maintenance technicians and on the wear and tear on the airframe to be in the habit of flying a handful of people all over the place in a practically empty jet. Instead they would cancel the flight and have the ticket holders assigned to different flights going to the same destination so they can put full or almost full airliners into the air. If they were so stupid as to fly tiny amounts of passengers across the country they would have gone out of business decades ago.
This by no means is the only glaring hole in the official story of 9/11 but it’s one of them. I’m sorry but the official story just doesn’t pass the smell test. In fact it stinks to high heaven. If you really want to honor the victims of 9/11 then the only meaningful way to do so requires first figuring out that what really happened that awful morning is about 180 degrees away from the official myth you’ve been fed.
P.S.– If you don’t believe me try calling United Airlines and tell them you want to book a seat on a Boeing 757 but that you only want to fly in one carrying less than forty other passengers. See how quickly you get laughed off the telephone.
Comments on this entry are closed.