[11B3]

Sharm is (or at least used to be when I was there) a complete security nightmare. Baggage handling for a charter plane? Nah. "Why bother" would be the attitude there.

Add to that the fact that there is an uninhabited island just off the coast a few miles that is easy to access by small boat. The 737 would have flown directly or very nearly so over that island on take-off. Even a SA-7 would have no problem finding the exhaust trail of a 737 taking off.

This thing reeked of terrorism from the start. Missile, bomb, whatever. Binny's girls don't always claim credit right away. Egypt was far too swift in calling this an 'accident' for me.

[RandallFlagg]

And didn't the French find the black box?

Somebody catch my hopes! They're blasting off!

/sarcasm...

[COEXERJ145]

Their crappy old manpad missiles failed to take down a DC-10. They may have selected the French 737 because they thought their missile would have greater success. Or it may simply have been a bomb carried aboard successfully due to crappy security.

Is it possible it was a terrorist attack? Yes. Is it definite? No. I would rather wait and see before making up my mind. Too many people here like to cry terrorism and cover up every time a plane crashes.