ita, the NYT has more details on the arrest. The man was widely quoted in newspaper accounts yesterday. It turns out he had no cousin on the flight and seems to have been making up the text message. Is that what you wanted to know?
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flea - Aug 15, 2005 11:03:43 am PDT #8345 of 10002
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tommyrot - Aug 15, 2005 11:06:33 am PDT #8346 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Can anyone clarify this quote:
Odd. The whole timeline is confusing. Now they are saying that the bodies were frozen solid, yet this guy says he received a text message right before the crash. And the F-16 pilots saw two people trying to take control of the plane shortly before the crash. So apparantly some people died right away from the lack of oxygen, and their bodies gradually froze, while at least a few people stayed alive.
I just realized I didn't answer your question....
§ ita § - Aug 15, 2005 11:07:05 am PDT #8347 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is that what you wanted to know?
Yes! That makes sense. It sounded odd, anyway, since I didn't get being able to text message when other people around you are visibly frozen.
Next I wonder how long he figured he'd get away with it...
Let me go check the NYT.
tommyrot - Aug 15, 2005 11:07:34 am PDT #8348 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
It turns out he had no cousin on the flight and seems to have been making up the text message.
Huh.
Well he must have known that the airplane suffered decompression, and inferred the cold from that.
Nora Deirdre - Aug 15, 2005 11:08:30 am PDT #8349 of 10002
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Cass - Aug 15, 2005 11:08:55 am PDT #8350 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
this lovely map of the San Diego trolley system.Oooh. Now I just need a photo iPod. And a trolley stop near me.
§ ita § - Aug 15, 2005 11:10:27 am PDT #8351 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Huh. I've only read the one NYT mention so far, and it seems to be pre-debunking:
"The pilots have turned blue. Farewell cousin - we're frozen," one passenger wrote in a text message from a cellphone, according to an interview with a relative on Greece's Alpha television.
Dana - Aug 15, 2005 11:12:16 am PDT #8352 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
time is crawling by
conference call without end
the clock mocks my pain
sarameg - Aug 15, 2005 11:13:48 am PDT #8353 of 10002
If it got cold due to depressurization, wouldn't you suffocate first? In my head, short of flash freezing, I think cold usually takes a little longer. Or at least on an airplane with a leak.
tommyrot - Aug 15, 2005 11:16:07 am PDT #8354 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
If it got cold due to depressurization, wouldn't you suffocate first? In my head, short of flash freezing, I think cold usually takes a little longer. Or at least on an airplane with a leak.
Yes. But the aircraft's emergency oxygen masks did drop down. So theoretically some could have survived the depressurization.