Six Concepts for the End of the World by Steve Beard

Author:Steve Beard [Beard, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781912685097
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2019-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

8.3 Effect: Jet Plane Accidents

The first Boeing 707 on a commercial flight to crash was Sabena flight 548. Flying from New York to Belgium, it crashed as it approached Zaventem Airport at Brussels on February 15th 1961. All 72 people on-board were killed, as well as one person on the ground.

The first fatal crash of a Boeing 747 happened with Lufthansa flight 540. Starting the second leg of its Frankfurt–Nairobi–Johannesburg run on November 20th 1974, the plane crashed and caught fire soon after takeoff from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. Of the 157 people on-board, 59 were killed.

Co-pilot Schacke:Eighty.

Captain Krack:Yes, okay. V1. VR. Pay attention. Vibration…

Flight Engineer Hahn:All is OK.

Captain Krack:Vibration!

Co-pilot Schacke:Gear up, gear travelling.

Flight Engineer Hahn:Engines okay so far.

Captain Krack:Roger.

Flight Engineer Hahn:RPM also okay.

Flight Engineer Hahn:Stickshaker!

Co-pilot Schacke:Okay, crash.

Lufthansa flight 540, cockpit voice recorder transcript, last moments

The invention of the civilian jet airliner was the invention of the plane crash. It was also, less obviously, the invention of the plane hijack. On November 24th 1968, Pan Am Flight 281 from New York to Puerto Rico was hijacked by four men and forced to fly to Soviet-supported Cuba. It was one of the many ‘skyjackings’ of the 1960s and 1970s, which were largely conducted by terrorist groups.

On September 11th 2001, the plane hijacking and the plane crash were brought together for the first time. It took some time for this elementary fact to be understood.

At 8:46am, a Boeing 767 passenger jet fuelled with 20,000 gallons of petrol crashes into the tallest tower in New York’s World Trade Center complex. There is an explosion. It seems like an accident. Then, minutes later, another Boeing 767 flies into the tower’s twin, just south of it. A second explosion. Now, it seems like a suicide bombing.

Images of the terror attacks are broadcast around the world on a loop. Every TV station shows the same images, over and over again. No one knows for sure what is going on.

The authorities shut down the airspace above New York. There are reports of a third Boeing jet crashing into the Pentagon, the US military command-and-control centre outside Washington. The authorities shut down the airspace above the whole North American continent.

The twin towers struck by the flying bombs in New York collapse, one after another. Some few hours later, a third smaller tower in the World Trade Center complex spontaneously collapses. It seems like a controlled demolition.

There are reports of a fourth Boeing crashing into a field somewhere outside New York.

Trading is suspended on the New York Stock Exchange and it is evacuated. Share prices of the airlines used in the attacks tumble on the world’s stock exchanges, while the prices of weapons manufacturers surge.

Conspiracy theorists note extraordinary trading spikes in the days before the attacks which seem to hint at foreknowledge. One of the big stock market winners is Raytheon.

The official 2004 report on the 9/11 attacks found that over 2,600 people were killed by a Middle Eastern terror cell. It ignored the collapse of the third building as well as the anomalous stock market data.

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