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Best way for a girl to get your attention: Visit the Cockpit...
...first. In world No. 2, al-Qaeda is not responsible for the destruction of the World Trade Center. The U.S. government is. The Pentagon was not hit by a commercial jet; it was hit by a cruise missile. United Flight 93 did not crash after its occupants rushed the cockpit; it was deliberately taken down by a U.S. Air Force fighter. The entire catastrophe was planned and executed by federal officials in order to provide the U.S. with a pretext for going to war in the Middle East and, by extension, as a means of consolidating and extending the power...
...pilots prepared Comair Flight 5191 for takeoff in the predawn darkness Sunday, they talked with air traffic controllers about Runway 22, Blue Grass Airport's main strip for commercial flights, a federal official said on CNN on Monday after listening to tapes recovered from the crashed plane's cockpit and the control tower. Somehow, the commuter jet and its 50 occupants ended up on Runway 26 instead, a cracked surface meant for small planes that was much too short for the twin-engine jet. The pilots tried to lift off, but the plane clipped trees, then quickly crashed...
...felt to drop a bomb on people, he replied, "I feel a light bump to the plane as a result of the bomb's release. A second later it's gone, and that's all. That is what I feel." Such myopia may have worked for him in the cockpit, but may be a liability in politics...
...place. Beck battled bureaucrats and rival collectors to take possession of the plane after it was salvaged from Cape York, where it crash-landed with five other fighters in May 1942. "When I die," says the 67-year-old, only half joking, "I want my ashes placed in the cockpit...