Partial List of Airliner Disasters Caused
Or Enabled by Corruption and Cover-UpsThe book, Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries, by former federal aviation safety agent
Rodney Stich, is based upon government documents and what the author--a federal investigator holding key oversight responsibilities at United Airlines--and other inspectors, discovered.
The documented pattern of hard-core misconduct within the FAA played a role in encouraging and insuring the success of the four groups of terrorist hijackers. The corrupt culture within the FAA was accompanied by refusal to order the simply changes reported by federal air safety inspectors that would have prevented the September 11 hijackings, and those for the prior 40 years, taking control of the aircraft. As a result of documented arrogance, corruption, and criminal acts, over 4,000 men, women, and children, were killed in a brutal manner, and brought about catastrophic financial and personal consequences, plus enormous threats to national security.
The following fatal crashes were directly involved with the pattern of arrogance and
documented air safety and criminal misconduct officially reported against United Airlines, records of which are in the author's possession. These corrupt acts, some of which are detailed and documented in Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries, played a major causative and permissive role in many air disasters
United Airlines Crash into New York City
The world's worst airline disasters at the time was the United Airlines DC-8 crash into the heart of New York City. It was one of the crashes that caused the FAA to give to FAA inspector Rodney Stich the hands-on assignment to correct the conditions responsible for the worst series of airline disasters in the nation's history (and certain key people at United Airlines was responsible for the majority of them).
The direct cause of the crash was the pilot's incredibly poor performance, which arose from the documented refusal by United Airlines personnel to provide legally required training and competency checks to its crewmembers, falsification of its safety records, threats upon federal air safety inspectors who sought report and take corrective actions on these matters. And much more.
By pressuring FAA management to ignore these major safety violations, United Airlines
management personnel played key roles in a 20-year-pattern of fatal crashes associated with these problems, and played a key role in the FAA culture. This culture resulted in FAA refusal to order the simple corrective actions that would have prevented many fatal airline crashes, including the September 11, 2001, terrorist hijackings that would have been prevented by ordering two simple corrective measures. The danger of fatal hijackings was obvious from their repetitive happenings, and as reported by federal air safety inspectors--including Rodney Stich--along with the simple corrective actions that by law FAA management were required to order.
Ironically, the next airliner crash into New York City after the United DC-8 disasteroccurred on September 11, 2001, made possible by the same corruption within the FAA and United Airlines. Another irony, key people at United Airlines had threatened the two inspectors seeking to correct the problems resulting in a series of air disasters. In this way they aided in the continuation of the corrupt culture within the FAA that would result in other United Airlines crashes--and the September 11, 2001, tragedies.
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United Airlines DC-8 crash at the
Denver airport.
(Many cremated alive.) Direct causes
of the crash arose from refusal to perform legally
required training and competency checks, felony falsification of federally
required safety records, threats against inspectors by United Airlines and FAA
management personnel, and other problems.
- United Airlines DC-8 crash near Salt Lake City.
- (Everyone killed.) Same problems.
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United Airlines Boeing 727 crash
at the Salt Lake City airport.
(Many cremated alive.) Direct
causes of the crash arose from refusal to perform legally required training
and competency checks, felony falsification of federally required safety
records, threats against inspectors by United Airlines and FAA management
personnel, and other problems. Much more was involved with this crash, and
an entire book could be written just on that one crash. In addition to
corruption by local personnel, there is the documented felony involvement by
the FAA Administrator and staff, the National Transportation Safety Board,
and the pre-crash cover-ups by members of Congress and various divisions of
the U.S. Department of Justice.
- United Airlines Boeing 727 crash after takeoff from Los Angeles. (Everyone killed.) Same problems, combined with ignoring prior warnings that the failure by United Airlines to have a backup-power for flight instruments would result in the total loss of an aircraft, and the illegal departure with a non-functioning generator, combined with prior cover-ups involving the FAA Administrator and the NTSB board members.
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United Airlines DC-8 crash at
Portland, Oregon. (Flight engineer
and passengers killed.)
Same problems with training and competency checks,
combined with NTSB and FAA Administrator cover-ups.
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United Airlines crash at
Midway Airport in Chicago. (All killed.)
Same problems with training
and competency checks.
- United Airlines crash into Lake Michigan. (All killed.) Caused by lack of altitude awareness that inspector Stich had previously reported and working on corrective actions, which were barred by FAA management who claimed there was no such problem. Same type of crash-causing problem as affecting American Airlines as it crashed during a night approach to Louisville, Kentucky during this same time period.
- And others as described in the books by former federal agent Rodney Stich.
Safety Related Problems Continuing To the Present Day?
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In 1998, a United Airlines Boeing 747 came within 100 feet of ramming into Mount
Bruno during a takeoff from San Francisco. The near-disaster, which would have been the worst single-aircraft disaster in the nation's history, was due to
low experience level and in competency for that position. A
Wall Street Journal investigative report indicated that this near-disaster had been
preceded by several others. This indicates that the problems resulting in many prior fatal crashes at United Airlines still exists.
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Although this sounds unreal, but the loss of two United Airlines aircraft to terrorists on September 11, 2001, are ripple effects from the misconduct years earlier of certain people at United Airlines and a great number of people within the FAA. Both of these groups engaged in corrupt, and even criminal activities, as described in Unfriendly Skies: 20th and 21st Centuries, and the actions of both groups, reinforcing each other, effectively blocked competent federal safety agents from addressing the many safety problems, and blocked the implementation of measures that would have prevented numerous airline disasters―including the hijackings of 9/11.
Due to the politics of air safety, the revolving door syndrome, personal rewards, a number of previously required safety equipment has been eliminated, with the expected heavy loss of life. For instance:
Elimination of Smoke Detectors and Fire Fighting Equipment
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The elimination by FAA management personnel of the requirement for smoke
detectors and fire extinguishing equipment in the
cargo compartments of narrow-body jets such as the DC-8 and Boeing737
was done despite the fact that hazardous cargo always will be put in such
compartments. Hazardous cargo is placed in such compartments either by
accident or deliberately. Further, fires occur in such cargo compartments
repeatedly on a world-wide basis. There have been numerous
near-disasters from this elimination, but Valuejet is the most memorable
example. The story behind the elimination of that safeguard and the reasons
for that unsafe act is not known to anyone except insiders who know the
culture in the FAA.
Elimination Of Hard Backups For Flight Controls
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The elimination by FAA management personnel of the previously required hard backup for flight controls such as the horizontal stabilizer, required on such aircraft as the DC-8, Boeing 707, Lockheed 1011, has already resulted in over 1,000 deaths, and threatens anyone who flies. Hundreds of others came close to suffering the same fate as all but one hydraulic system failed.
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The elimination of the flight engineer on complex aircraft with hundreds of people on board reduces safety, places a greater load on the pilots, reduces the technical knowledge possessed by a competent flight engineer to detect, take corrective actions, and reduce the chance of a disaster.
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Approving two-engine operation over long water routes that in the event of an engine failure results in several hundred passengers relying upon a single engine to take them over 1500 miles to a landing--hoping that the weather in such inhospitable places as the North Atlantic does not do its common sudden change from CAVU to zero-zero.
Primer
on Those Whose Conduct Enabled
3,000
People to Perish on 9/11
To help understand how the hijackings of four airliners on 911 occurred and the relationship to the problems former federal safety agent Rodney Stich discovered and tried to report and correct, consider the following:
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Four groups of terrorists were able to hijack four airliners on 9/11 because the known procedures for preventing hijackings were not implemented. Remember, if these were put in place, 3,000 people would not have been brutally killed on that date, and the reason for such peripheral effects such as the U.S. invasion of Iraq would not have occurred. If this is important to you, read on!
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Why weren't the preventative measures in place? The same reason why many other preventative measures were not taken that allowed decades of preventable airline disasters to occur: the corruption within the FAA that is a matter of records in the possession of former federal agent Stich, and described in the book, Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries.
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What people were involved in covering up for this corruption? The people involved in covering up for the corruption and even criminal activities include, among others, the following:
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Members of Congress, who for years were informed by letters of the deadly corruption affecting airline safety (as well as criminal activities elsewhere that affected national security). From 1964 to the present date, letters were sent to members of Congress on all of these matters, offering to provide testimony and evidence. Stich even filed lawsuits against members of Congress on the basis of the cover-ups, in an attempt to make a judicial record of their obstruction of justice activities. The corruption in Congress that was publicized in the latter half of 2006 were just the tip of the iceberg.
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Federal judges, through legal filings seeking to report the federal crimes to a federal judge, as specifically provided by the federal crime reporting statute. Federal judges responded by (a) blocking the reports; (b) issuing unlawful and unconstitutional orders permanently barring Stich from filing any papers in any federal court; (c) charging Stich with criminal contempt of court for attempting to report ongoing criminal activities. These judicial acts were obstruction of justice felonies and retaliation felonies.
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Media people. Starting while Stich was a federal agent attempting to get publicity to the corruption so as to bring it to a halt, Stich repeatedly notified in writing media people, stressing deaths and the great harm resulting to national security, and offering to provide the testimony of himself and numerous other former government agents. None responded, which made possible many of the nation's worst tragedies. Reasons for the non-response would include (a) those who are secretly receiving money from the CIA and other government offices; (b) not wishing to offend their sources high in government; (c) laziness, among other reasons.
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Department of Justice officials. Starting while Stich was still a federal employee seeking to report the criminal activities that he discovered during his official duties, people in the various divisions of the Department of Justice were repeatedly notified of the criminal activities affecting national security. Instead of acting on the corruption, they charged Stich with criminal contempt of court in collaboration with federal judges at Sacramento, California, among other things.
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They all made possible the conditions resulting in 3,000 deaths on 9/11, which were only one-day's consequences in only one of the areas involved in the corruption. Oh, one other group: the members of the public who knew of these charges, knew of the cover-ups, knew of the retaliation against the former federal agent, and who were too lazy to help!
Related Web Sites
- Chronology of decades of corrupt activities by the CIA, U.S. politicians, and other members of the system, as described in the book, Defrauding America.
- Chronology of the arrogant and corrupt war on drugs--against the
American people--as described in the book,
Drugging America.
- Chronology of arrogant and corrupt activities in the deadly politics of
aviation safety, as described in the book,
Unfriendly Skies.
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