Obama's plane sabotaged?

I just came across an unnerving story from the Los Angeles Times:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-plane11-2009jul11,0,6369778.story

My usual policy is not to use the L.A. Times as a source, because of Andrew Malcolm's hackery. In fact, this story should prompt further investigation by the Times - but it hasn't.

Last July, during the presidential campaign, a plane carrying then-Sen. Obama and dozens of others from Chicago to Charlotte had to make an emergency landing in St. Louis. The plane had developed an inflated evacuation slide within the tail cone just after takeoff.

This problem is so rare that the NTSB can cite only 2 other instances of it in the entire history of American aviation. The NTSB is not expected to determine exactly what caused it to happen on Obama's flight until later this summer.

Suspiciously, the flight crew did not hear the slide inflate after takeoff - which suggests something was wrong even before the plane took off. A service check only weeks before also showed no such problems.

I am 100% convinced this was sabotage. Not a shadow of a doubt in my mind.

Only the very naive would think the Far Right wouldn't impair Obama's plane. We've seen this thuggery in action before. There's no real doubt that Paul Wellstone's plane was sabotaged. The same is true of a plane flown by Michael Connell, a consultant who was set to testify in a case regarding GOP vote fraud in Ohio in the 2004 "election" (and who had been previously threatened by GOP operatives). I strongly suspect that other well-known people were also victims of such tampering, going back at least a dozen years.

Wellstone, Connell, and Obama. The first 2 men were killed by aircraft sabotage. Obama would have been an even more prominent target than the other 2 men.

Why is the media trying to pass off the incident on Obama's plane as just an accident? The media needs to dig a little deeper and try to find out exactly who was responsible and what official role they had in politics.

Am I surprised by this story? Not in the least bit. I've spent over 15 years investigating political operations, and few things surprise me anymore.

Put the heat on the media to make sure they don't let this story go - like they have with so many others.