[bootless]

Why no communication? Because of the cheapskate airline people, cockpit crews were cut from three to two people. With at least one engine having departed the wing, it probably took all the strength and concentration of the two pilots to give the plane a fighting chance of maybe getting to the ground safely. Aviate, navigate, communicate. The CVR is running, they know it will record whatever's going on. Flights in trouble have been lost because the pilot chose to talk, rather than fly. This is not unusual.

[NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh]

Understood, but it still doesn't jive with other *announcements* that keep popping out all over the place. An awful lot of differing and purely wrong information from NTSB spokespeople. The announcement that the cockpit recorder had no conversation relating to an emergency. The CO-PILOT was at the controls, but no words. The rear stabilizer bar was intact. First the engine was on fire...then the plane was on fire above the engine causing the wing to come lose, then the engine. The plane was in a nosedive, but the plane exploded in midair and the debri field is literally everywhere. The plane dumped fuel, but this particular plane did not dump fuel. The fuel came from the wing that landed in Jamaica Bay. The tail was in tact. First it was the engine which had 9700 hours on it that went bad. But it wasn't. It was the one with less than 300 hours. If the pilot was trying to control the situation, why was the co-pilot at the controls?
You get my drift, bootless. I know you fly. Do all the discrepencies sit right in your mind?