Flight 3407

On February 12, 2009, Flight 3407 crashed outside my hometown of Buffalo, New York.  On the plane were two prominent political activists, Beverly Eckert and Alison Des Forges.  Beverly Eckert's late husband Sean Rooney was killed in one of the towers on 9/11, and she became a leading proponent of investigating 9/11.  She was one of the relatively few people who chose not to accept the 9/11 victim compensation fund, thus keeping her right to sue.  Please read her credo My Silence Cannot Be Bought for a better understanding of her aims.  Alison Des Forges was a leading expert on the Rwandan genocide.  The official reasons explaining how the plane fell from the sky was that the FAA had insufficient regulations and that the pilots were undisciplined and improperly trained.  I don't believe this is how it really transpired.  

Being from Buffalo, I have a unique perspective on the event.  Sean Rooney was an alum of my high school, Canisius High School, a fairly prestigious Jesuit high school in the region, and Beverly had set up a scholarship in his name with the school after his death.  The first recipient of the scholarship was a boy named Remy Uwilingiyimana, who happened to be a relative of Agathe Uwiligiyimana, the Prime Minister of Rwanda who was killed in the beginning of the genocide.  Is it too coincidental that two major political activists were killed on the same flight with this sort of connection?  The Sean Rooney Memorial Scholarship, which Beverly helped create, first went to a Rwandan boy related to Rwanda's Prime Minister at the time of the genocide, someone Alison Des Forges had extensive ties to.  There seems to be a crossroads here that should not be overlooked.  Is it also a coincidence that Obama addresses the crash in front of a blue and gold background - the school colors of Canisius?

Another event that arouses suspicion is National Transportation Security Board board member Steven Chealander's prompt resignation following the crash.  He presided over the intial investigation and then submitted his resignation to Obama about a week later.  Chealander was presidentially appointed by George W. Bush, and he decided to resign one week into one of the most important events of his tenure - Why?  Icing was immediately claimed as the main cause of the crash by both the mainstream media and then Chealander at the first news conference, before the investigation had actually been completed.  It is important to mention here that the FBI sent experts who investigated the crash of Flight 93 on 9/11 to help carry out the investigation of Flight 3407.  There have been significant questions about Flight 93, ranging from whether the plane was shot from the sky or if there was a plane at all. 

The local media coverage was dismal and proved to me that the event was being covered up.  Living in Boulder at the time, I had the advantage of being removed from the low quality of information surrounding the crash, and thus the propagandized environment it created in Buffalo.  The Buffalo News aptly had its Washington Bureau Chief Jerry Zremski cover the entire crash, and he thoroughly maintained official storylines regarding 9/11 and icing.  He did nothing to actually cover the crash, but instead just distracted people from the reality of the event.  Reading his coverage was sickening to me as I saw him play matador to my hometown - people in Buffalo have no clue as to the truth of the crash.  One of the worst things I saw come out of the paper was an editorial by Tim Roemer.  He specifically spoke about his relationship with Beverly Eckert - they worked together in establishing the 9/11 Commission.  The piece looks innocent enough now, but at the time it carried a lot of weight - coverage of the crash was scarce, for Jerry Zremski was the only person continually writing about it.  Repetition of a false story might  Scarcity of information is a primary tool of social engineering.   Watch him in the following clip saying the Pentagon was "ripped open by a missile":

All in all, I know the area and the people and I am able to see through this event.  The final investigation hearing looked like a kangaroo court with a full-on CIA transcript and video explaining how the plane fell from the sky.  Icing wasn't finally blamed, but rather poor FAA standards that allowed undisciplined pilots to fly the plane.  The pilots became subject to character attacks from all angles, and the black box transcript magically provided several perfect explanations for how the FAA failed and why the pilots were inadequate.  

I've believed this since the crash but have largely held my tongue - no more.  People in Buffalo have been propagandized to the hilt about the crash and I know how I look professing these things.  It makes no difference though, because I am thoroughly convinced the plane was brought down on purpose.  Beverly Eckert's trial will now not take place and 9/11 will be further enshrouded in lies and propaganda.  The State Department, among others, will dislike what I am saying here, but I have to write about it because nobody else is.  I don't need validation from anyone but myself.  In the words of the Buddha, "The earth is my witness."