Falcon84 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 2 days ago) and read 2007 times:
After commenting on Civil Av on the 20th anniversary of NW 255, I was looking at CVR transcripts of different fatal aircraft accidents, and, purely by accident, I saw the following website listed somewhere. I don't remember how I stumbled upon it.
MD-90 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 8418 posts, RR: 13 Reply 10, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 1834 times:
During early 1995, Boeing sales experienced an unconnected but serious internal problem in Europe, though the details were never made public. The German flag carrier Lufthansa discovered that its new Boeing 747-400 aircraft had been fitted with flight directors [auto-pilots] that were vulnerable to American remote-control, ostensibly designed to “recover” hijacked aircraft whether the hijackers wanted to be recovered or not. Lufthansa was not informed about this “free extra” in advance, and was furious that its sovereign aircraft might be covertly “rescued” by America, without the knowledge or permission of the German Government
In a mammoth operation rumored to cost in excess of $800 million, Lufthansa stripped every flight director out of every Boeing in its fleet, replacing them in toto with German systems programmed by the Luftwaffe [German Air Force]. According to a member of the German internal security service in Frankfurt during October 1996, all Lufthansa aircraft had by that date been secured, rendering them invulnerable to remote flight director commands transmitted by any and all American authorities. Under the new intelligence protocols, Russia and France were made aware of these flight director risks.
Klaus From Germany, joined Jul 2001, 20858 posts, RR: 55 Reply 22, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1722 times:
Quoting JGPH1A (Reply 21): Don't you believe me ? Oh sorry, I forgot, there's no direct translation for "spontaneous" in German
Maybe you shouldn't have mistaken the Monty Python Guide to German for an actual teaching tool after all!
"Spontan" in german actually lends itself better to the kind of application it describes than the much more long-winded spontaneous which by comparison looks a lot more like a committee production.
Which brings us back to what you're trying to pass for humour these days...!
Hmmm, sounds like yet another recent Teutonic conversion of a latin-rooted word. Isn't there a proper German word, you know, with 7 syllables and lots of umlauts, ending in -keit ? No ? Hmmmm - etymology can be SO revealing
Klaus From Germany, joined Jul 2001, 20858 posts, RR: 55 Reply 24, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1711 times:
Quoting JGPH1A (Reply 23): Hmmm, sounds like yet another recent Teutonic conversion of a latin-rooted word. Isn't there a proper German word, you know, with 7 syllables and lots of umlauts, ending in -keit ?
Sure...we've got those as well. But for some reason spontan does its job best when served appropriately quick and compact, don't you think?
Quoting JGPH1A (Reply 23): Hmmmm - etymology can be SO revealing
Absolutely. And it seems whoever introduced spon-ta-ne-ous into the english language must have been chuckling sardonically to himself...!
25 Pelican: Hilarious Within weeks of the "collapse" of communism, the American media hyped up the need for the Berlin Wall to be taken down, allowing East German
26 Garnetpalmetto: Hrm, I still think the missile launcher attached to a 757 theory espoused by our buddies over at letsroll911 is more wacked out...that or the "cruise
27 Srbmod: Why don't we blame the Roswell aliens, spaceships and black project a/c from Area 51 while we're at it..... The 9/11 Conspiracy industry has definite
28 San747: I'm more open than most of you to conspiracy theories, but even I'm not falling for this one.
29 Jafa39: Poor old thermite, been getting it in the neck since the Hindenburgh...........These tin-foil hat wearers make me laugh when they aren't scaring me
30 Falcon84: Thank you for getting this thread back on topic.
31 JGPH1A: It's a conspiracy to hijack this thread about a stupid conspiracy to hijack, well, everything. Did you fail to spot the subtle irony ?
32 Mika: Anyone who've ever seen the TV show Brainiac would know that when thermite burns it produces visible amounts of bright sparks (molten aluminum?) all o
33 Klaus: I still apologize profusely for participating in JGP's dastardly plot to hijack this grave and substantial discussion.
35 JGPH1A: Your participation was feeble and derisory at best. I'm sure nobody took the slightest notice. Good. Then my work here is done.
36 DrDeke: Until reading this, I thought the weirdest conspiracy theory I would ever encounter would be the "ClimateWars Chemtrails Conspiracy" -- the one in whi
37 LTBEWR: Me thinks he has been consuming way too many ales at the pub for too too long. This certified member of the tin hat club constructs one of the most co
38 ShyFlyer: You forgot one --> Airbus. Duh, they're too busy manipulating the stock market. So in other words, he posts in Civ-Av? You know, you have to hand it
39 NoUFO: The registrant of the website is a woman, Marilyn Vialls (living in Australia), but most was obviously written by her husband Joe, who died a while b
40 San747: Actually, what you just wrote seems pretty out there... It's a draw at best.
41 Theredbaron: I am using this pseudo conspiracy website to show my son the effects of drugs....
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