No missing parts or tampering found on Obama plane

[DeepModem Mom]

Source: NYT/AP

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An initial examination of the plane that had maintenance problems while carrying Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama found no evidence of missing parts or tampering, federal investigators said Thursday. The Midwest Airlines MD-81 made a precautionary landing in St. Louis on Monday after leaving Chicago for Charlotte, N.C. The National Transportation Safety Board released some preliminary findings from the on-scene investigation Thursday.

The pilots of the Midwest Airlines MD-81 felt it took more than the usual amount of force to manipulate the aircraft controls, NTSB spokeswoman Bridget Serchak said.

The federal agency stated that an emergency evacuation slide located in the tail cone of the plane partially inflated and that an inflation bottle, typically containing a mix of nitrogen and carbon dioxide, was empty. It is not clear exactly why or when that happened, Serchak said. Flight crew statements indicate the crew did not hear the slide deploy in flight, according to the NTSB. An examination of the hardware associated with the slide did not reveal any evidence of missing components or tampering, the agency said.

Investigators also reported that there did not to appear to be any punctures in the slide. There were marks on it, though, that were consistent with rubbing of cables, according to the agency. Also, a railing of the catwalk, used to walk from the back of the plane into the tail, was broken. The broken railing may have affected elevator control cables, investigators said....

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[truthisfreedom]

1. No tampering=broken railing? Oh come on. The inflating slide broke the railing?

I don't think so. Something is fishy.

[dkf]

2. I didn't realize this is what they were alluding to when they wanted to check

the plane out further.

[aldo]

3. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me

"Mechanic: Obama's Plane Could Have 'Lost Control' in Anomaly" http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/168906 . The CIA likes to operate in the shadows, we need to shine the light of day on this one. I strongly suspect this was an assassination warning, if not an attempt.

It's as though the rogue uncle living over the garage has taken over. The open takeover was Bush's illegal selection. The declaration was Cheney's FU to Leahy.

[Virginia Dare]

4. They're counting on the P.T. Barnum theory..

how many times will the tragic plane crash/lone crazy gunman cover work?

[Art_from_Ark]

9. Basically, it's worked ever since the time of Lincoln

Or, if you want to get technical, since the time of Garfield, since John Wilkes Booth was supposed to have co-conspirators (at least, that's what their Stanton-appointed Kangaroo Kourt said)

[Virginia Dare]

5. I hope the dark forces haven't come out of their hidey holes again.

but I'm afraid this sounds like a dark force m.o. A shot over the bow so to speak.

[dflprincess]

6. They could have caught someone in the act of tampering with the plane

and we'd never hear about it.

[a la izquierda]

7. Phew. Well that's a huge relief.

The first thing I thought of was something ain't quite right. It's disturbing that the first thing that comes to mind is foul play, don't you think? What kind of country do we live in anymore? :eyes:

[AndyTiedye]

8. It Was a Warning to Obama to Vote "the right way" on FISA

If they wanted the plane to crash, it would have.