Harold, this is very curious!
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AIR FRANCE FLIGHT 447 CRASH - DOMAIN NAME REGISTERED flight447.com BACK IN SEPTEMBER 2007
This is very strange. Events surrounding the Air France plane that crashed and practically disintegrated raise more questions then they answer. An Air France pilot said it was 'highly likely' the jet was blown out of the sky by a bomb.
Now it has come to light that the domain name for flight 447 was registered in September 2007. Coincidence? Maybe. Iranian Kari Bian, who makes movies about Israelis and "Palestinians," registered the domain flight447.com.
That's peculiar.
And another domain related to the Air France flight — AirFranceLawSuit.com — that is up for sale on e-Bay was registered the day after the crash to Hoda Elkassem in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who is currently in Kuwait. Ghoulish.
Air France Crash Raises Questions About Domain Name Registration Wired (hat tip mOSXquito)
As investigators seek to unravel the fate of Air France flight 447, there’s been speculation online about an unusual domain name registration made some two years prior to this week’s plane crash, flight447.com.
The mystery of the Air France flight that disappeared this week deepened after news agencies on Wednesday confirmed a previous Air France flight from Buenos Aires to Paris was the target of a bomb threat just days before. That plane was inspected and arrived without incident.
Now it has emerged that someone registered a domain for the missing plane’s flight number on September 30, 2007. The domain name, which currently points to a search engine, expires on the same date this year and was registered to Success Incorporated in Malibu, California.
It’s not unusual for individuals to register domain names shortly after news breaks on a big story and then to sell them. Indeed, a second domain AirFrance447.com was registered the day of the crash, hours after the news made headlines, and a third domain AirFranceLawSuit.com is being auctioned on e-Bay this week after being registered the day after the crash.
The timing of the two-year-old flight447.com, however, makes it unusual.
But when contacted, the owner of the latter domain, Kari Bian, said that the connection between his registration and the crash is coincidental. “It’s just an accident (that there’s a connection),” he said. “I have nothing to do with anything. I feel really bad for that flight.”
The cause of the crash is still unknown.
Bian is an Iranian film producer based in the U.S. who recently finished an Israeli-Palestinian love story called David and Fatima about an Israeli soldier’s relationship with a Palestinian Muslim girl. He’s also listed as executive producer for Secrets of Life, a movie starring Tony Curtis, Vivica Fox, Jon Lovitz and Cheech Marin, and a semi-autobiographical tale called The Iron Man, which is unrelated to the Robert Downey, Jr., film and is loosely based on Bian’s life.
Bian also owns a small side business registering domains called Thriftys. Bian says he buys domain names and owns about 500 of them, which include the names of numerous airline flight numbers as well as the names of cars, flowers, businesses and songs. He says he created the flight number domains with a program.
“I just put ‘flight’ in front of 1 through 1,000 and I register them,” he explained.
He says he didn’t buy the flight domains for any particular reason and has no intention of selling flight447.com now.
“I’m very busy with my work and my career,” he says. “I’m not waiting for a flight to crash so I can go sell it. I’m a professional businessman and I make movies and it happens that I own this domain name.”
Another domain related to the Air France flight — AirFranceLawSuit.com — that is up for sale on e-Bay was registered the day after the crash to Hoda Elkassem in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Elkassem, who is in Kuwait temporarily where her husband is teaching art, responded to an e-mail inquiry from Threat Level.
Posted by Pamela Geller on Wednesday, June 03, 2009
FRANCE 330 PLANE A "MAN MADE DISASTER"? AIRLINE REC'D BOMB THREAT
There is still no clue as to what catastrophe befell the Air France 330 airbus that disappeared off the radar with no SOS calls and exploded or crashed into smithereens over the ocean, killing 228 people.
An Airbus spokesman said: "The A330 has an extremely good safety record and this is the first accident on a commercially operated A330."
So the airline received a bomb threat but the possibility of terror "has not even been considered" -- but the abortion doc whack job murderer is a deemed a "terrorist" immediately. I'm confused.
Air France announced a "catastrophe", saying the plane could have been hit by lightning. But French ministers yesterday said lightning alone did not explain the crash, which would be the worst air disaster in Air France's 75-year history. "All scenarios have to be envisaged," the French defence minister, Hervé Morin, said yesterday. "We can't rule out a terrorist act since terrorism is the main threat to western democracies, but at this time we don't have any element whatsoever indicating that such an act could have caused this accident."
The environment minister, Jean-Louis Borloo, today described "a race against time" to find the wreckage and the plane's black box flight recorder, without which the crash remained "incomprehensible". He warned that the black box would only emit signals for 30 days. But the Atlantic search area between the coasts of Brazil and Africa remains vast and depths range from 3,000 to 6,000 metres, with currents so strong that the box might never be found. Borloo said that in 2004, when a jet crashed off Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, even with an exact crash point located, it took 15 days to find the flight recorder at a depth of 1,000 metres.
UPDATE: Amaros translated this this from today's Le Figaro for Atlas Readers. "This is of course speculative as of now but this pilot seems to know the aircraft, the route and speaks of some nasty possibilities".
Air France affirme que l'appareil a connu une panne de circuit électrique. Quelles sont les conséquences d'une telle panne à bord d'un avion ?
AF maintains that the aircraft has encountered an electrical black out in flight, what would be the implications of such a malfunction during flight?
Il y a cinq sources d'énergie électrique à bord d'un appareil. Pour qu'il y ait une panne totale, il faudrait que ces cinq sources ne fonctionnent plus. Lorsque tout tombe en panne, une batterie prend de façon transitoire et partielle le relais, ainsi qu'un moteur qu'on utilise généralement au sol. Une sorte d'éolienne est déclenchée pour générer de l'électricité. Pour que le commandant de bord n'ait plus aucune capacité à piloter l'avion, il faudrait que toutes ces sources d'électricité soient endommagées. Ça me paraît difficile.
There are 5 electrical sources on board of this aircraft. For a total black out, all 5 sources need to fail. When a total black out occurs, a back up battery takes up the temporary function as well as a motor usually used on land to generate electricity. For the pilot to be totally disabled to fly the aircraft, all these above sources need to fail, a scenario I would consider difficult to occur.
Un foudroiement, comme évoqué par le ministre en charge des Transports Jean-Louis Borloo, ne pourrait donc selon vous pas provoquer une telle panne générale ?
An electrocution (lighting) as stated by the transport ministry spokesperson Jean-Lois Borloo, could not, according to you, cause such a general black out?
Je ne dis pas ça, mais je me demande comment on peut savoir qu'il y a eu un foudroiement. Ce que l'on sait, c'est qu'il y a visiblement eu une forte turbulence puis des problèmes électriques. On peut ensuite associer les deux, mais de là à dire qu'un foudroiement est à l'origine de tout cela… Dans l'histoire de l'aviation, on ne connaît pas aujourd'hui de cas de foudroiement qui aboutisse à la perte d'un avion.
I am not saying that, but would ask how do we know that there was such electic shock? What was reported was that there was visibly heavy turbulance and some electrical problems. We could automatically link the two but we know of no lightning bringing down a plane this way.
Un expert brésilien a émis l'hypothèse d'un amerrissage en plein océan. Cette hypothèse est-elle réaliste ?
A Brazilian expert hypothesized about an ocean landing. Does this hypothesis seem realistic to you?
Pour que l'avion puisse amerrir, il doit être pilotable. Et pour être pilotable, il faut qu'il y ait un peu d'électricité. Et s'il y a de l'électricité, il y a possibilité d'envoyer un message. Entre le moment où vous planez et celui où vous vous posez sur l'eau, il va s'écouler près d'une demi-heure. Cette possibilité est donc peu probable… En réalité, ce qui est à peu près sûr, c'est qu'on ne saura jamais ce qui s'est réellement passé. L'avion se trouvait au-dessus de l'Atlantique. S'il a explosé en plein vol, il y a des débris dispersés sur dix kilomètres de diamètre…
For the plane to land on water, it needs to be controllable. For the plane to be piloted, you need electricity. If there still is electricity, then a message can also be relayed. Between your plan to land on water and the landing you usually have up to 1/2 hour. So this theory carries little probability. The reality is that we will never be sure what really happened. The plane is at the bottom of the Atlantic, if it blew up during flight, debris would disperse over 10s of kilometers.
Vous parlez d'une explosion. Est-ce qu'un attentat aurait pu causer une panne électrique générale ?
You talk about an explosion. Could an attack cause a general electrical failure?
Absolument. On peut très bien imaginer qu'une bombe a provoqué une dépressurisation de l'appareil, et que l'avion prenne du temps à se démonter en morceaux. De même, ça peut carrément être une grosse bombe qui a fait exploser tout l'avion, ce qui expliquerait que l'appareil n'a pas eu le temps d'envoyer un signal d'alerte.
Absolutely. We can easily imagine a smaller bomb causing the cabin to depressurize and that the plane falls apart over a short period of time. At the same time, a bigger bomb can blow up the whole plane leaving no time for sending out emergency signals.
Fishy......
UPDATE: And getting fishier: Meanwhile an Air France pilot said it was 'highly likely' the jet was blown out of the sky by a bomb.
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