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Donald Trump dubs EgyptAir crash ‘another terrorist attack’
2016-05-20
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US presidential hopeful Donald Trump called Thursday’s deadly EgyptAir plane crash "another terrorist attack," on his Twitter account.

His comments came after the flight from Gay Paree to Cairo carrying 66 people on board crashed in the Mediterranean sea early on Thursday morning.

Egyptian and Greek Sherlocks are scrambling to locate debris and find out the causes of the crash.

The de-facto Republican nominee, referring to the plane crash, wrote: "Looks like yet another terrorist attack. Airplane departed from Gay Paree. When will we get tough, smart and vigilant? Great hate and sickness!"

Egypt’s minister of civil aviation said Cairo would not rule out the possibility of a terrorist attack behind the missing plane. Around the same time, Russia’s domestic intelligence chief said that "apparently, it is a terrorist attack."

It is not the first time the Republican frontrunner has linked a tragedy to terrorism. After the mass shooting in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, in December, which killed 14 people, Trump blamed "radical Islamic terrorism" and called for temporary ban on Muslims entering the US.

In a press statement at the time, the tycoon-turned-politician called "for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."

Former US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a Republican who served in Democratic President Barack Obama
teachable moment...
’s administration, said Trump’s tweet came too soon before officials had a chance to discover what happened.

"It prejudges the outcome," Gates told MSNBC. "It’s always better to wait until you act - know what the facts are before you open up. I realize that’s a very unusual thing in American politics, but it ought to be tried occasionally."
Posted by:Fred

#15  EC,
Sensors triggered over a 3 minute period while a crisis is rolling out needs forensics... jets falling out of the sky without Maydays is pretty rare...but it was an Airbus, so perhaps Brussels standards need to be considered . :-)
Posted by: Capsu78   2016-05-20 21:43  

#14  What Besoeker posted:

On May 20th 2016 The Aviation Herald received information from three independent channels, that ACARS (Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System) messages with following content were received from the aircraft:

00:26Z 3044 ANTI ICE R WINDOW
00:26Z 561200 R SLIDING WINDOW SENSOR
00:26Z 2600 SMOKE LAVATORY SMOKE
00:27Z 2600 AVIONICS SMOKE
00:28Z 561100 R FIXED WINDOW SENSOR
00:29Z 2200 AUTO FLT FCU 2 FAULT
00:29Z 2700 F/CTL SEC 3 FAULT
no further ACARS messages were received

That would indeed point to an electrical failure, not a terrorist act.
Posted by: European Conservative   2016-05-20 20:28  

#13  @tw

I'm surprised that Hillary doesn't blame a movie...
Posted by: European Conservative   2016-05-20 20:24  

#12  EgyptAir flight MS804: technical fault may have caused accident - live


As I said...
Posted by: European Conservative   2016-05-20 20:23  

#11  Trained Jihadist commandeered the controls and demonstrated his new skills.
Posted by: KBK   2016-05-20 18:43  

#10  Fascinating, Besoeker. Thank you.
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-05-20 16:36  

#9  Aviation Herald Update.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-05-20 16:24  

#8  Need more time to rule out obscure YouTube video release for the early arrival of the jet at a non scheduled landing strip 180 ft under the Mediterranean Sea.
Posted by: Capsu78   2016-05-20 16:17  

#7  You don't want a president who reacts without knowing any facts. That's a recipe for disaster.

You mean like:

"The Cambridge Police acted Stupidly"

"If I had a son..."

-too many more to list - save the bandwidth-
Posted by: CrazyFool   2016-05-20 15:39  

#6  All the cool politicians said it! Datelined yesterday at 3:13 pm ET:

Hillary Clinton says EgyptAir crash seems like an 'act of terrorism'
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-05-20 15:34  

#5  I can't find the link right now but CNN and NBC were calling terrorism as well.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2016-05-20 13:55  

#4  You don't want a president who reacts without knowing any facts. That's a recipe for disaster.

No, but you want a candidate who knows how to get elected. He has learned that he can use Twitter to get free publicity from the media. They don't have to like him, all they have to do is spell his name right.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2016-05-20 12:37  

#3  The swerves the plane took before crashing point to a struggle in the cockpit.

This could be terrorist interference, but the Germanwings disaster proves that other reasons may apply.

We can speculate all we like, but presidents and candidates should show more restraint until facts are known.

You don't want a president who reacts without knowing any facts. That's a recipe for disaster.
Posted by: European Conservative   2016-05-20 11:16  

#2  Trump states the obvious and the PC, "Religion of Peace", crowd gets the vapors. One of the reasons to like him
Posted by: Frank G   2016-05-20 08:41  

#1  "Looks like yet another terrorist attack. Airplane departed from Gay Paree. When will we get tough, smart and vigilant?

"Looks like".... indeed it does. Fault him if you will, but "Looks like" is hardly an out-of-the-box preliminary deduction.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-05-20 04:24  

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