[Magician]

And now we have about a dozen witnesses who say that the crash of AA 587 near JFK started with a small explosion in the fuselage, before the plane started breaking up, and a surveillance camera photo showing the plane still flying but trailing smoke. And soon there will be the usual Freepers posting that those dozen witnesses are "unreliable".

Yeah. Sure. Just like the one hundred or so "unreliable" witnesses that saw a missile go up and hit TWA 800.

IMHO, we are being scammed about AA 587. By the same government people who scammed us about TWA 800.

Reid is the SECOND SHOE BOMBER.

[ThreeOfSeven]

IMHO, we are being scammed about AA 587. By the same government people who scammed us about TWA 800.

It's hard to believe in big conspiracies requiring many conspirators. It's much easier to believe in small conspiracies requiring only a few conspirators.

[GBA]

"IMHO, we are being scammed about AA 587. By the same government people who scammed us about TWA 800. Reid is the SECOND SHOE BOMBER."

I've never believed the "official" TWA 800 story, but the official AA 587 explanation is much more plausible. There are a lot of questions regarding the mass of the composite rudder the French use on this model of Airbus. Boeing doesn't use composites in this area due to the tendency to flutter under certain conditions, such as what might have happened with AA 587.

I've heard that there might not have been enough separation between it and a 747(?) in front of it and maybe AA 587 encountered some vortices that contributed to the tail flutter. Tail flutter can be incredibly violent and quick and certainly could have caused AA587 to crash.

[pgkdan]

Reid is the SECOND SHOE BOMBER.

yep.