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Was scanning the news here on the web AP Wire, UPI Reuters, etc. All of them reported the jet down with 179 aboard. I have scanned the local and national TV news coverages, also the local rag sheet. Not one word concerning the downed jet and its passengers. Just politics and Cuban kid, nothing else whatsoever that is happening in the world is covered. The jet went down yesterday morning I think. Not a word on any of the news outlets about it. This is strange to me because all the other jet crashes such as the Egypt air, and the 800 flight wias full coverage. It is rather scary that our news outlets are so tightly controlled. Not much different than Pravda.

-- Notforlong (Fsur@aol.com), January 31, 2000

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Same story with the latest NSA computer outage. It was mentioned briefly on a couple of news wires. Most of the major Daily papers didn't touch it.

Also, the story on the huge oil spill in Kentucky wasn't picked up by anybody. It is one of the worst land based spills in recent memory. The oil spill was in excess of 11,000 barrels of oil and could have been 21,000 barrels. By comparison, the Rio bay spill earlier this month was only 8,000 Barrels.....

There is a clearly news embargo on these types of stories.

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 31, 2000.


We've entered an era of some kind of hyper-news. As to the Russian news services, there was a post just yesterday about the Russian trainwreck which killed one passenger -- and the experts were divided, the story said, and some believed the wreck may hav been triggered by Y2K!!!! Open press! But not here .......

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-- Squirrel Hunter (nuts@upina.cellrelaytower), January 31, 2000.


You're right. It's 12noon EST - and not a word about the crash. Maybe it's because the passengers were blacks, not whites like TWA 800 (g).

There are 1800 TV stations, CNN, Headline News, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox News Network etc. They employ maybe 10,000-plus reporters. All have been ordered by "Them" not to report this crash.

Talk about a vast conspiracy!

-- silly (silly@sillier.silliest), January 31, 2000.


"the jet"? What jet?

BTW, was there any doubt that we'd send home a kid with a name that was pronounced like "alien"? (g)

Speaking of politics, does Al Gore remind anyone else of that whiny kid that everyone used to pick on in grammar school? You know, the one that you really tried to like, but dang if he didn't just get on your nerves.

-- Die Fledermaus (shadow@alliance.org), January 31, 2000.


This was on the AOL Home Page. Very big story with photos.

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169 Feared Dead in Kenya Airways Crash

By MATTHEW BIGG Reuters

ABIDJAN (Jan. 31) - Rescuers pulled 74 bodies out of the sea off Ivory Coast Monday after a Kenya Airways crash in which as many as 169 are feared to have died.

The Airbus 310 en route to Nairobi via Lagos with 179 people on board, including many Nigerians, up to 14 western Europeans and two U.S. citizens, came down Sunday evening minutes after taking off from Abidjan international airport.

Ten survivors of Flight KQ431 had been taken to the PISAM private clinic in Abidjan, medical and airline sources said. An ambulance worker said one of the survivors had swum ashore.

A French-owned tuna-fishing boat carried 31 bodies to the port of Abidjan, and tug-boats transported others.

''We have brought 74 bodies ashore, and those are the ones we have seen with our own eyes,'' Captain Jean-Baptiste Agnimol of the military rescue service told Reuters at the port of Abidjan.

Fearful relatives gathered at the airports in Lagos and Nairobi, where the plane had been due to land Monday morning.

''We have only been married three months and I didn't even get to say goodbye,'' said a woman who gave her name as Anne, whose husband had been due to take the flight.

Pleasure boats and small canoes usually used for fishing and transporting goods joined in the search for survivors where the plane came down about 3,000 yards from the shore. They were joined late in the morning by an Ivorian navy vessel.

The crash was the first major airliner disaster of the year and the first crash suffered by Kenya Airways, which is 26-percent owned by Dutch carrier KLM.

''It broke up on impact. It broke into 100 pieces,'' medical worker Alain Thonar said.

Merchant sailors returning to port said they had seen an escape chute from the plane, a refrigerator and seats floating in the sea.

Gerard Vaudout, a maritime official at the French embassy in Abidjan which was taking part in the rescue operation, said the traditionally strong Atlantic currents off the Abidjan coast were hampering the effort to find more survivors.

''We saw small pieces of the plane, but things are going in all directions because of the current,'' he said.

The coast of West Africa is prey to treacherous currents which often sweep bathers away.

The Via Avenir, a modern French-owned fishing boat based in Abidjan, brought 31 of the bodies ashore.

''We saw the bodies and got them out by hand. We went out in a Zodiac (inflatable boat) and pulled them out by hand,'' said one sailor, emotional and exhausted after a harrowing night.

A Reuters correspondent saw the bodies in black plastic body bags, with military rescue workers in black overalls preparing to put them into ambulances and other vehicles ready for transfer to a morgue in central Abidjan.

Around 20 personnel from a French military base in Abidjan were also at the port to give assistance.

Some of the bodies bore no obvious mark of injury. Blood spilled from other body bags as they were carried ashore.

At Lagos airport, KLM officials said that the flight from the Kenyan capital Nairobi had been due to land there before Abidjan but was forced to divert because of the ''harmattan,'' a dusty seasonal wind from the deserts of north Africa.

At Lagos airport, relatives of passengers complained they were getting no information.

An airport official said senior Kenyan Airways officials were on board the plane.

''We don't care about those four. Our families are our problem,'' said Tayo Kamal, whose brother and sister may have been on the flight.

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-- cin (cinlooo@aol.com), January 31, 2000.



Hi,

Try www.newsmax.com, they are carrying the story of a downed Kenyan jet with 179 aboard..

-- wally wallman (wally_yllaw@hotmail.com), January 31, 2000.


Was mentioned on telelvision news last night.

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), January 31, 2000.

At least there are some sites still willing to risk the wrath of the government to get the true story out. No doubt the gov will do whatever it can to shut these sites down now.

-- (Steve887@cirstin.org), January 31, 2000.

1. Heard on some radio news blurb that there were ten (10) survivors of the crash. I find that almost impossible to believe, but hope it is true.

2. Heard on Art Bell's Dremland program last night, that according to Jim Marrs, the NSA surveilance satellite is down again. He claimed the info came from a very good source of his.

-- Lurkess (Lurkess@Lurking.Net), January 31, 2000.


For a news "Black Out", there sure is a lot of headline info showing up.

Drudge, Yahoo, Fox and CNN all show it on their opening pages. No searches necessary.

Everything isn't a conspiricy. But then I'm just a government shill... (:O)

-- El Coyote (ElCoyote@Scout.com), January 31, 2000.



I saw it on CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox this morning and read about it in USA Today, WSJ, NY Times, and Wash. Post. This has to be the most poorly organized conspiracy in history. Better shape up, you government shills!

-- Roadus Runnerus (meep@meep.com), January 31, 2000.

Please pardon this crude cut and paste post. I gathered the follwoing article from a Kenyan website for the "Daily Nation." While there is no obvious y2k connection, I found the reference to the airbus' sophisticated computer technology intriguing.

http://www.Nationaudio.com/News/DailyNation/Today/News/.html News Monday, January 31, 2000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------

Airbuses were due to be replaced By KAPLICH BARSITO The worst accident in Kenya's aviation history involved a plane whose model was set to be gradually phased out by Kenya Airways.

The Airbus 310 which went down off the coast of Cote d'Ivore was part of a fleet to be replaced with new B767-300, Kenya Airways chairman Isaac Omolo Okero said.

Airbus 310 is an older model manufactured by Airbus Europe, a giant aircraft manufacturing firm based in Toulouse, France. It has a total of 182 seats, 150 of them Tourist Class and the rest Gold Club.

The twin-engine plane has five washroom facilities. It has a range of 8,670 kilometres.

The new models manufactured by Airbus, like A318 and A321, are said to be top-of-the range in aviation industry.

They are equipped, computer-guided aircraft that aim to save airlines millions of dollars and enhancing safety.

Consequently pilots can easily switch from an A318 to A321 without retraining.

Last year, Airbus beat Boeing to the market with its computer- laden "fly by wire" technology.

The Kenya Airways board was expected to announce this week the details of a new programme approved last week on the replacement of the Airbus 310 fleet.

According to a report in this week's The EastAfrican, the new development is part of a major investment programme estimated at $570 million to be spread over five years.

It will add to KA's fleet as the airline business grows and older aircraft are replaced.

The national carrier says that after a process that took two years, the airline selected Boeing B767-300 to improve its fleet.

"The process has been thorough and carried out in a totally professional manner," said the chairman of the sub-committee which oversees the fleet planning activity, Mr Titus Naikuni.

The Boeing 737-300 aircraft which the airline bought over the past three years will be augmented by the new long range version, the Boeing 737-700, for regional operations.

-- I.M. Benedict (prayingdown@theriver.com), January 31, 2000.


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