Field McConnell is convinced
the 9/11 terrorist attacks are being covered up.
The Northwest Airlines
pilot from rural Glyndon, Minn., said a second attack is
imminent and conspirators already have aborted their
plan once this year.
Those beliefs prompted
him to begin writing for a Web site where like-minded
people gather and to file a lawsuit in Fargo’s federal
court to expose an alleged conspiracy.
The lawsuit, filed last
week, claims Boeing Co. and the Air Line Pilots
Association (ALPA) can’t assure him that B747-400 planes
are safe. McConnell, who is the process of seeking an
early retirement from Northwest, claims the planes are
rigged by Boeing and can be remotely detonated.
“We do not believe in any
way, shape or form that that is true,” said Pete
Janhunen, a spokesman for ALPA, the world’s largest
pilot’s union.
“Our senior lawyer and
senior engineer both said that on its face, it’s an
insane complaint. … It sounds like he’s a troubled guy.”
McConnell, a rural
Glyndon rancher, has been a Northwest Airlines pilot for
more than 28 years. He graduated from the U.S. Naval
Academy in 1971 and flew planes in the military,
including with Fargo’s Happy Hooligans, for 22 years.
“I am obligated under
company procedures and FAA regulation not to operate an
aircraft if I suspect it is unsafe,” McConnell, 57,
states in his handwritten claim.
Janhunen dismisses the
claim.
“We take every threat to
airline security and safety very seriously,” he said.
“In this case, we do not believe there’s any shred of
evidence that the allegations about these Boeing
airplanes are true, and the case should be immediately
dismissed.”
Many of McConnell’s
allegations are outlined in Internet postings on
www.hawkscafe.com,
which its creators say provide an analysis of the
weapons and motives behind 9/11. The group claims to
have more than 4 million members worldwide.
“I think this lawsuit is
opening a Pandora’s box,” McConnell said. “It will turn
into a legal case that solves 9/11.”
He claims to know the
true conspirators behind the 9/11 attacks and that
radical Muslims served as a masquerade.
“If you want to know why
I’m doing it, it is to make aviation safer,” McConnell
said.
Boeing spokesman Tim
Neale said each of its planes exceeds federal standards
and undergoes rigorous certification before taking to
the air.
“It’s (safety) something
we take very, very seriously,” Neale said. “There are no
safety issues that go ignored. There’s just too much at
stake.”
Northwest Airlines denied
comment. In the lawsuit, McConnell said the company and
pilots union “have suggested that I am crazy.”
The lawsuit was filed on
behalf of those working with the Web site, said
McConnell, who previously filed for bankruptcy and seeks
$4.5 million from Boeing and ALPA.
“I’m trying to retire
early so I can do something more important than hauling
400 people to Hawaii,” said McConnell, who added that he
wants to move to a warmer climate.
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David Hawkins e-mail to
below at Monday March 5, 2007 ..
Stephen Wagner,
Fargo Forum
Hello Stephen:
Re: Illegal
modifications to Boeing aircraft
Here are two
articles showing that Boeing has installed
explosives behind the doors of all of its
passenger aircraft and missile gyroscopes
('QRS11') in a number of flight boxes thereby
allowing the illegally-modifed planes to be
flown as a remotely-operated vehicles ('ROV')
with a payload of incendiary cluster bombs as
evidenced by bogus 'al-Qaeda' attacks during the
9/11 war games.
A former safety
officer in the oil industry and an expert in
the handling of improvised explosive devices, I
believe that the airline industry must
ground all Boeing planes and strip out the
illegal modifications before its fiduciaries can
guarantee the safety of the crews and the
passengers.
Regards,
David Hawkins
"Anti-terrorism
auto-land system. On this side of the
Atlantic, aircraft manufacturer Boeing has
received a patent for a system that, once
activated, removes all control from pilots and
automatically returns a commercial airplane to a
predetermined landing location. The
uninterruptible autopilot would be activated
either by pilots, by onboard sensors, or
remotely by radio or satellite links, if
terrorists attempt to gain control of the flight
deck. Once the cockpit door is unlocked, for any
reason, Boeing says “the chances of safely
bringing the vehicle to a stop where authorities
can help resolve the threat onboard the vehicle
greatly decreases.” Assuming the sanctity of the
cockpit is breached, the system could include
manual switches for pilots to hit, or a remote
link whereby airline or government officials at
ground facilities would monitor the aircraft and
command the automatic control mode (see box
below). Had such a system been installed on the
9/11 aircraft, the terrorists might have been
able to kill the pilots, but the aircraft would
not have been used for attacking the twin towers
of the World Trade Center, or to hit the
Pentagon. The fourth airplane that crashed into
a field also would have been recovered to a safe
landing site under the concept envisioned by
Boeing."
http://www.airaccidentdigest.com/0207_story3.html
Explosives
and missile gyroscopes
('QRS11') illegally-installed in Boeing
Commercial Aircraft, "We were forced to
recompete the C-130 AMP [Avionics Modernization
Program] program and the small-diameter bomb ..
These are the federal prisoner numbers for Mike
Sears and Darleen Druyun. Prisoner 70040, Mike
Sears, pled guilty to one felony count of aiding
and abetting a violation of the
conflict-of-interest laws. He served four months
in the federal correctional center in Oxford,
Wis .. Prisoner 47614, Darleen Druyun. Darleen
pled guilty to one felony count of violation of
the conflict-of-interest laws. She served nine
months at the federal correctional center here
in Marianna, Fla. She was released Sept. 30. One
of the reasons that Darleen got a stronger
sentence was that she lied to the prosecutors
throughout the process .. But there are some
within the prosecutors' offices that believe
that Boeing is rotten to the core. They talk to
us about pervasive misconduct and they describe
it in geographic terms of spanning Cape
Canaveral to Huntington Beach, to Orlando, to
St. Louis to Chicago .. The U.S. attorney in Los
Angeles is looking at indicting Boeing for
violations of the Economic Espionage Act, the
Procurement Integrity Act, the False Claims Act
and the Major Frauds Act. The U.S. attorney in
Alexandria, Va., is looking at indicting us for
violation of the conflict-of-interest laws. And
both are looking to throw in a few conspiracy
and aiding-and-abetting charges for good measure
.. When we first met with the Department of
Justice to see if we could resolve this, it's
their view Boeing's actions have tainted the
EELV contract, the NASA 19-pack contract [a 2002
contract for up to 19 Delta II rocket launches],
and 27 Darleen Druyun-related contracts. Their
estimate of damage is $5 billion to $10 billion
.. We can get re-suspended or all of IDS
(Integrated Defense Systems) can be debarred ..
We can lose our security clearances. And
one nasty little thing is that the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which has an
almost explicit prohibition on possessing
explosives. For those of you who are at BCA
[Boeing Commercial Airplanes], you might
remember that every single door on an airplane
has actuators that are triggered by explosives
.. These are our five biggest export
problems, and I think you can see every heritage
company and every business unit represented here
.. We have not resolved QRS-11 [a gyrochip
Boeing exported [to Communist China] inside some
of its commercial jets without an export license
between 2000 and 2003], which is a BCA issue.
But the other four, we have paid a total of $50
million in penalties, we've had three consent
decrees and several special compliance officers.
It's also affected the way we do business,
because we've had to go the extra mile .. The
State Department's view of Boeing is we just
don't get it. There are too many violations, and
as a result it's probably their intention to
hammer us on QRS-11."
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