[iontheball]

It is time to start worrying.

[FatherofFive]

At one briefing, according to this person, officials were told investigators are actively pursuing the notion that the plane was diverted "with the intention of using it later for another purpose."

This would make one heck of a suicide bomb.

[70times7]

when a day or two had gone by without wreckage I began to suspect this was more than the average terrorist attack. Anyone else see “Executive Decision”? The general idea was to use an airliner to deliver a very lethal chemical (I think) agent to the US.

There are nukes and dirty nukes out there. What they lack is a dependable delivery system. I hope safeguards are in place that would prevent this plane from “pretending” to be some other flight. I don't know.

I do get the distinct impression that we being “fed” information: they are telling us things now that they knew in the first 24 hours. That suggests this is quite bad and they don't want us to know how bad it is while they try to nullify the threat.

I'm sincerely hoping this ends up being a tinfoil hat post.