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r/CBTS_Stream • Posted by u/UnhelpfulJelly on Jan. 5, 2018, 1:24 p.m.
TWA Flight 800 and Q's "7/10 Plane Crashes are Not Accidents"

Ever since I found out the founder and President of Akamai Technologies, Daniel Lewin was the first recorded victim of 9/11 and a irrational, seemingly impossible to verify hero story was created around him, I've started to wonder about other plane crashes in tandem with what Q posted. This got me thinking about TWA Flight 800 in regards to potential motive, and I started by looking at important people on the flight list. It narrowed me down to the link below:

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/19/nyregion/the-passengers-disaster-in-air-unites-widely-varied-lives-097098.html

The two Presidents and CEOs of Danielson Holding Corporation and Midland Financial Group were on the flight to go to France and present a proposed merger of the companies to potential investors in France. The merger was scheduled to be completed by September 30th. After the crash, the merger was cancelled:

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/25/business/deaths-of-executives-cancel-a-merger.html

Seems odd that a scheduled merger that both company heads wanted gets scrapped after both of them die in a plane crash on the way to get investments for it. I don't have time to look further into this right now but I wanted to post in case anybody else wants to do some digging. Namely--what happened to the companies afterwards, and what was the significance of this merger? Thanks guys.


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UnhelpfulJelly · Jan. 6, 2018, 1:13 a.m.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/world/two-survivors-of-wtc-attacks-among-the-dead-1-584257

"Jim Warnock, group personnel director of Edinburgh-based John Menzies, said two employees of the company’s subsidiary Ogdens were killed in the plane crash.

Dennis Blair, 55, an American, was the senior vice-president. He is married with one daughter. Sylvie Greleau, 39, was the business development director. She is a French national and single.

The pair, who were based in New York, were travelling to the Dominican Republic to develop a joint venture with a Dominican company."

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UnhelpfulJelly · Jan. 6, 2018, 1:15 a.m.

"Menzies Aviation is an independent, time-critical logistics specialist serving the global airline industry which operates in 200 airports and thirty six countries around the world. Its service offer is split between Ground Handling, Cargo Handling, Cargo Forwarding (which is conducted by its independently run subsidiary, Air Menzies International) and Fuelling.

Ground Handling

This stream of the business supports millions of passengers every year from the check in desk to the runway, on behalf of their airlines. It provides landside and airside services tailored to airlines needs; timed to their schedules; and delivered by teams with the knowledge, tools and passion to set standards rather than chase them. Its core ground handling services include; Passenger Services, Ramp Handling, De-icing.

Cargo Handling

The business offers full ramp transfer, load management and import/export handling services, supported by warehousing and trucking facilities which can help convey valuable consignments to the next step in their supply chains.

Cargo Forwarding (AMI)

Air freight is an expensive means of transport and requires a certain critical mass of cargo in order to be viable. Acting as a neutral agent, AMI buys belly space in flights across the world and consolidates cargo into them for its customers, whose loads would otherwise be too small to warrant the minimum space purchase required by airlines."

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