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2007-09-02 Britain

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Posted by lotp 2007-09-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Faked? Good! The totten bastards. Fake some more.

All 243 passengers and 16 crew members were killed. A Scottish Fatal Accident Inquiry, which opened on October 1, 1990, heard that, when the cockpit broke off, tornado-force winds tore through the fuselage, tearing clothes off passengers and turning objects like drink carts into lethal pieces of shrapnel. Because of the sudden change in air pressure, the gases inside the passengers' bodies would have expanded to four times their normal volume, causing their lungs to swell and then collapse. People and objects not fixed down would have been blown out of the aircraft at an air temperature of −46 °C (−50 °F), their 6-mile (9 km) fall lasting about two minutes (Cox and Foster 1992). Some passengers remained attached to the fuselage by their seat belts, landing in Lockerbie strapped to their seats.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-09-02 03:47|| 2007-09-02 03:47|| Front Page Top

#2 I have to agree with Besoeker. The purpose of punishment is to deter future crimes. Logically it can have no other purpose. The purpose was fulfilled in this case and I can't get excited about one of Ghadaffi's henchmen carrying the can for a crime someone else may have committed. I am sure he is guilty of lots of other stuff.

Posted by phil_b 2007-09-02 05:51|| 2007-09-02 05:51|| Front Page Top

#3 'I was shown fragments of a brown circuit board which matched our prototype. But when the MST-13 went into production, the timers contained green boards. I knew that the timers sold to Libya had green boards. I told the investigators this.'

Gee, they found his company's product in the plane's wreckage, he admits this, and now he's quibbling about the color of the boards? Phhttt.

Posted by mrp 2007-09-02 09:08|| 2007-09-02 09:08|| Front Page Top

#4 The different color means they were replaced with other boards, NOT "insignificant"

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-09-02 10:24|| 2007-09-02 10:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Which only points once again to the absurdity of treating an act of war as a crime. Tripoli should have been razed but instead we have this decades long kabuki.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-09-02 12:15|| 2007-09-02 12:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Nowhere in the article does Bollier dispute that the timer, whether built on a brown or green board, was manufactured by Mebo. Nor does the article mention that Libya paid out more than $2 billion in compensation to the families of Pan Am 103.

Posted by mrp 2007-09-02 12:18|| 2007-09-02 12:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, yeah, but that doesn't mean they're guilty.

Although it does seem unlikely they were framed....

Posted by Bobby 2007-09-02 15:09|| 2007-09-02 15:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Which only points once again to the absurdity of treating an act of war as a crime. Tripoli should have been razed but instead we have this decades long kabuki

And Ghadafi Duck still steals oxygen as well. My only comment about Lockerbie is to praise the forensic investigators who were able to locate and trace the timer chip fragment. That was simply some stupendous detective work.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-02 23:53|| 2007-09-02 23:53|| Front Page Top

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