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This airliner crash is as mysterious as the unexplained death by inhalation anthrax of a 94-year-old woman in Connecticut. There is no logical connection between the effect, and any circumstance that could have brought it about. How did the vertical fin on the airliner manage to shear away from its structural mount, and how were anthrax spores introduced in the proximity of the woman, without any other traces being in evidence? There was no explosion as yet determined to have been involved in the disintregration of Flight 587, and no traces of anthrax spores are known to have been found anywhere in or near the home of the elderly woman, or any place that she may have visited for a period of a couple of weeks before death occurred.

Now we move into the realm of science fiction, or even fantasy. Suppose that there is a teleportation device, carried back to us by time travelers, to inject these mysterious occurrences into our everyday lives, at a time in history where there was great turmoil about bacteriological agents, and terrorist attacks using airliners. A small piece of a structural part on the tail surface of the airliner was teleported away, so it looked like a stress failure, and a small quantity of anthrax spores were teleported into the woman's nasal passages.

But of course there shall be developed much more rational explanations, for each of these seemingly unrelated events. Just keep in mind, that not all the frontiers have yet been explored, or even defined very well so far.

A couple of points:

1.Thrust reversers are normally stowed in a mechanically locked position, so that in case of a hydraulic system failure they remain closed.

2.Hydraulic pumps are mechanically driven by the engine during and after engine start. A "cut" hydraulic line would spew tremendous amounts of fluid while under pressure at 3000 psi and trigger a cockpit warning light. Hydraulics power all major aircraft systems including brakes and nose-wheel steering. I doubt Flight 587 would even have been able to taxi to the runway for takeoff had this "cut line" scenario occurred.