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Mr Panetta, the below refers to your recent request for top to bottom review.
Air Force One is in danger.
>White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta Friday night sent a letter to
Defense Secretary William Perry ordering him to ''undertake a top to bottom
review of all operational aspects, including maintenance and training procedures''
of the Pentagon's executive support air fleet. He asked that the review
begin within the next 30 days ``to ensure that all necessary steps and safeguards
are being taken to provide the safest possible transportation.''
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Dear Mr. President, Bill Clinton
Dear Mr. Chief of Staff, Leon Panetta
Dear Mr. Secretary of Transportation, Federico Peña
Dear Mr. Director, Federal Aviation Authority, David Hinson
Dear Mr. Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board, James Hall
Dear Mr. Vice Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board, Robert Francis
Dear Mr. Investigator, National Transportation Safety Board, Ron Schleede
Dear Ms. Attorney General, Department of Justice, Janet Reno
Dear Mr. Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Louis Freeh
Dear Mr. Agent, New York Field Office, Federal Bureau of Investigation,
James Kallstrom
Mr. Bill Clinton, President of the United States of America
Dear Mr. President,
Hello, Sir. I have important news to give. Your life is in immediate danger,
although slight, hopefully slight, when you fly on Air Force One, a Boeing
747-200B. This type aircraft has a history of inadvertent forward cargo
door openings in flight. Hindsight and the internet have enabled me to link
several crashes of early model Boeing 747s to a common cause, the inadvertent
opening of the forward cargo door in flight. Documentation, pictures, comments,
and emails from all over the world regarding this discovery are on the internet
web site at http://www.corazon.com
Your life, the lives of those who fly with you, and all the passengers on
early model Boeing 747s are at risk to this door opening outward and upward,
tearing off in the slipstream exposing a large gash in the nose which tears
off.
The door openings at altitude mimic a bomb. It is not a bomb. The world
will be a bit less dangerous once the causes are determined to be mechanical
and not evil.
Have you ever had a car door, or hood, or trunk open unexpectedly? I have;
it's not unusual. If you have, then please give thought to possible airplane
door opening and the severe consequences.
Please be responsive to this informed citizen.
Mr. Clinton, leader from follower, I ask that you check out the forward
cargo door as the cause of the crash of TWA Flight 800. Sincerely, John
Barry Smith
Mr. Leon Panetta, Chief of Staff, Clinton Administration
I feel like saying, Leon, Leon, Leon, as that was the way I thought of you
when I voted for you as Congressman several times in Monterey.
Mr. Panetta, we met in 1980 in your second floor office on Alvarado where
I personally thanked you for inquiring on my behalf on a personnel matter
while I was stationed in Korea. The last time I saw you, you were walking
alone across Toro Park during Earth Day in 1992, just before your selection
as Budget Director. I remember thinking, what a job politics is shaking
hands at a post hippie ecology get together. I was with a friend selling
United Nations videos, not a hot seller.
I have come to alert you, sir, of danger to you, the President, and all
passengers who fly in early model Boeing 747s. Yes, this is unorthodox,
an email letter from a member of the public but then, I trust, as a former
congressman, that you believe that occasionally a citizen may have something
important to say. I do; here it is: The forward cargo doors of early model
Boeing 747s are inadvertently opening in flight, tearing off door and skin,
allowing the slipstream to enter the large gash which tears off the nose
leading to total destruction and the deaths of all aboard. This has happened
several times before and appeared to be explosions. The attached picture
is of a Boeing 747 that almost had the nose come off.
Mr. Panetta, former representative of the people from former constituent,
I ask that you check out the forward cargo door as the cause of the crash
of TWA Flight 800 or visit my web site at http://www.corazon.com. Sincerely,
John Barry Smith
Mr. Federico Peña , Secretary of Transportation,
Dear Mr. Secretary, I invite you to a visit to my web site at http://www.corazon.com.
Mr. Peña, traveller to traveller, I ask that you check out the forward
cargo door as the cause of the crash of TWA Flight 800. Sincerely, John
Barry Smith
Mr. David Hinson, Director, Federal Aviation Authority,
Dear Director, I am looking at my FAA pilot's license, commercial pilot,
airplane single engine land, instrument airplane, of which I am very, very
proud. I also received a Part 135 certificate from your agency. I was also
a US Navy Lieutenant Naval Flight Officer in RVAH -1, RA-5C Vigilantes.
My ejection story and US Navy accident report are on my web site at http://www.corazon.com
along with the official accident reports on UAL Flight 811 and Pan Am 103.
All of the four Boeing 747 crashes described were caused, in my opinion,
by the inadvertent opening of the forward cargo door in flight. The web
site provides documentation, reasoning, and opinion supporting that hypothesis.
At minimum, there now exists a mysterious early model Boeing 747 crash.
Air Force One is an early model Boeing 747. There are several hundred early
model Boeing 747s now flying. The location of the start of destruction for
TWA Flight 800 and others is near the forward cargo hold. I ask that you
seal the door shut to prevent explosives from being placed there or to prevent
the door from accidentally opening.
The forward cargo door has two Airworthiness Directives against it and has
killed nine persons already in UAL Flight 811. A glance at the attached
picture of a Boeing 747-121 with the large gash in the right side of its
nose may persuade you a nose could easily tear off in a 300 knot slipstream.
Mr. Hinson, naval officer to naval officer, I ask that you check out the
forward cargo door as the cause of the crash of TWA Flight 800. Sincerely,
John Barry Smith
Mr. James Hall , Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board,
Dear Mr. Chairman, in 1992, the NTSB conducted a very complete and well
explained accident report on the crash of UAL Flight 811 in which a cargo
door came open in flight and nine passengers where sucked out of their seats
to their deaths. Use the key of 811 to unlock 800.
The thrust of the crash investigation should then focus on what causes the
forward cargo door to open inadvertently. The NTSB stated electrical short
to the door control system in UAL 811. For others, an explosive device could
do it, or random electrical signals in the avionics bay might do it. There
are eleven rational causes for accidental door openings listed on the web
site at http://www.corazon.com. The cause of the door openings is unknown
and must be discovered.
Mr. Hall, passenger to passenger, I ask that you check out the forward cargo
door as the cause of the crash of TWA Flight 800. Sincerely, John Barry
Smith
Mr. Robert Francis, Vice Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board
Dear Mr. Vice Chairman, I've seen you on TV and believe you are a compassionate
man above all. I appeal to you to prevent the future deaths of innocent
passengers in early model Boeing 747s whose forward cargo door may inadvertently
open outward and upward, tearing off with skin into the slipstream, exposing
a large gash in the side of nose which then tears all the way off. Please
compare evidence collected in the explained cargo door crash of UAL 811
to those of Air India Flight 182, Pan Am 103, and currently, TWA Flight
800.
The specific similarities will be: 1: Short loud sound on CVR. 2. Abrupt
power cut. 3. Fodded number three engine. 4. Radar blips during destruction.
5. Never recovered bodies sitting in similar seats above and just aft of
the cargo door. 6. Same type of aircraft, Boeing 747 series 100 or 200 with
high flight time. 7. Destruction sequence starts forward of the wing. Sun
angle lighting may confirm spinning loose cargo door near New York in July
at 8:30 PM at 13,500 feet would be reflected as streak. Other similarities
in four crashes include: nose tears off, explosive decompression mimics
bomb, crew talking on radios when event happens, night takeoff, and pressurization
changes to hull at catastrophic event.
The forward cargo door has opened inadvertently many times, usually on the
ground. It has opened several times in the air with only minor or moderate
damage. Airworthiness Directives were issued after those events. It has
opened in flight leading to total destruction three times, in my opinion,
which is supported by documentation on my web site at http://www.corazon.com.
A glance at the attached picture of a Boeing 747-121 with the large gash
in the right side of its nose may persuade you a nose could easily tear
off in a 300 knot slipstream.
Mr. Francis, survivor consoler from jet crash survivor, I ask that you check
out the forward cargo door as the cause of the crash of TWA Flight 800.
Sincerely, John Barry Smith
Mr. Investigator, National Transportation Safety Board.
Dear Mr. Investigator,
Facts, facts, facts. There are 105 pages of facts on my web site. If you
were to go on the internet to the World Wide Web and go to Universal Resource
Locator, URL address http://www.corazon.com you will fine 105 pages of documentation,
support, argument, and correspondence from all over the world regarding
this matter, the inadvertent opening of the forward cargo door of early
model 747s, one of which is Air Force One.
Regarding the four Boeing 747 crashes, Air India Flight 182, Boeing 747-237B;
Pan Am Flight 103, Boeing 747-121A; UAL Flight 811, Boeing 747-122; and
TWA Flight 800, Boeing 747-131.:
Fact: All four crashes were early model Boeing 747s.
Fact: All four crashes had deaths.
Fact: All four crashes had a short loud sound before destruction.
Fact: All four crashes had abrupt power cut.
Fact: All four crashes had start of destruction start near forward cargo
hold.
Fact: All four crashes had apparent explosions in forward cargo hold area.
Fact: All four crashes had explosive decompression.
Fact: Three crashes had nose snap off.
Fact: Three crashes had radar blips during destruction, possibly all four.
Fact: Three crashes had nine or more missing bodies never recovered, possibly
all four.
Fact: Three crashes had number three engine ingesting foreign object damage,
possibly all four.
Fact: Two crashes had mysterious blip before destruction door on radar,
possibly all four.
Fact: Two crashes had crew talking on radio when catastrophic event occurred,
possibly all four.
Fact: One crash had visual clue, possibly all four.
All of the above clues fit the puzzle that is solved by the inadvertent
opening of the forward cargo door of early model high flight time Boeing
747s inflight.
pilot to pilot, I ask that you check out the forward cargo door as the
cause of the crash of TWA Flight 800.
Sincerely, John Barry Smith
Ms. Janet Reno, Attorney General,
Dear Ms. Attorney General, your late mother would have loved this cargo
door story. It has everything: mystery, money, politics, death, red herrings,
explosions, prime suspects, and of course, tragedy.
Prevention is not as glamorous but more powerful than curing. Please prevent
more deaths in early model Boeing 747s rather than heal the injured after
the crash.
Ms. Reno, former State Attorney from a former Preventive Medicine hearing
conservationist, I ask that you check out the forward cargo door as the
cause of the crash of TWA Flight 800. Sincerely, John Barry Smith
Mr. Louis Freeh , Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Dear Mr. Director, the solution to the mystery of these plane crashes is
a common mechanical fault. Although the previous investigations came to
different conclusions, there is no cover up, there is no plot, there is
no conspiracy; it is just honest people describing reality from their own
best interest point of view, and they are wrong. We've all done it, not
seeing the object we don't want to see, not hearing what we don't want to
hear, and not believing what we don't want to believe.
Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity, and there is no qualifier in front of 'Investigation",
and this email is unencrypted and sent in the clear, and man to man, I ask
that you check out the forward cargo door as the cause of the crash of TWA
Flight 800. Sincerely, John Barry Smith
Mr. James Kallstrom, New York Field Office, Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Dear Mr. Agent, there was an explosion in TWA Flight 800. It was called
explosive decompression. It happened when the forward cargo door opened
in flight exposing the higher pressure air in the cargo compartment to the
lower outside air pressure. The decompression mimicked a bomb. The deceleration
following the nose tearing off in the slipstream caused many items to smash
into bulkheads, mimicking a bomb. The fuel from the disintegrating wing
vaporized and exploded, mimicking a bomb.
The cargo door has a criminal profile that begs to be investigated. It has
killed nine passengers already under similar circumstances and has two Airworthiness
Directives against it. It is the prime suspect in TWA Flight 800. Please
examine attached photo of damaged Boeing 747 for clues to determine how
a nose of a 747 could tear off in a split second, as has happened several
times already and may happen again.
Mr. Kallstrom, professional sleuth from amateur sleuth, I ask that you check
out the forward cargo door as the cause of the crash of TWA Flight 800.
Sincerely, John Barry Smith
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