[I cannot think of a name]

Actually I hate to be the wet blanket here, but we know exactly what caused that crash - poorly installed entertainment system wiring that had been added after the aircraft was built. What wasn't as widely reported was that the same nitwits that installed this wiring had done the same poor job on other aircraft as well. Luckily those were inspected and found before something bad happened.

And if you want something to wear your tin foil hat about, I (my opinion) do believe there is a bad guy here - the FAA for bending over for the airlines. Once upon a time an aircraft of that size would have had three crew members, a pilot, copilot, and flight engineer.

In a situation like this, the flight engineer would have been dispatched to the cabin to see what was going on. It is quite possible that one of the ceiling panels could have been opened and the fire extinguished with a hand held. Unfortunately this was a two crew plane. The pilot and copilot were stuck with getting their information from the cabin crew (which not to be offensive, but is mainly women and homosexuals - rarely will you find anyone technical back there).

The crew flew around talking to various centers, dumping fuel, etc while the fire slowly went out of control. Again this is only my opinion, but if there are 200+ souls on board, there ought to be a third crew member in the cockpit.

[Perdogg]

Please, people here just want flt 800 to be a terror attack despite there was never any evidence of it. In fact, AF1 was fixed soon after Flight 800.