[Alberta's Child]

Regarding flight 587, this means the Bush administration is continuing the policy of concealment to the public. I have great problems with this.

I don't. If Richard Reid had been successful in his attempt to blow a plane out of the sky with explosives in his shoes, I have no doubt that there would have been a "mechanical problem" identified as a cause of the incident.

"Put not your trust in princes."

[spyone]

Do you mean that keeping something like this under wraps is better than the possible panic/economic damage?

[marron]

don't. If Richard Reid had been successful in his attempt to blow a plane out of the sky with explosives in his shoes, I have no doubt that there would have been a "mechanical problem" identified as a cause of the incident.

I just figured they didn't want to give Osama another victory so soon after 9/11. So they just announced it was mechanical failure. The giveaway was that they announced it while the whole town was still in flames, and they couldn't even get to the plane itself.

Similar to the TWA800, where they announced that it was mechanical failure before they pulled one piece off the ocean floor.