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Of course the first thing my Hubby asked me was “Has anyone taken credit yet?”

Let's think about this, though. Are there any logical reasons why a terrorist group would not want to be discovered? At least immediately?

For a bomb to go off on an airplane precisely where and when it did would be the perfect crime if remaining hidden, or under the radar so to speak, was the point.

If a group were well funded and networked enough, I could very well see a series of frightening "mishaps" occuring without sufficient explanation, and then the group coming out much later saying: "we did all this, and you had no idea." That would be much more frightening.

Also, a couple years ago, wasn't there talk of them wanting to do something like this to an aircraft in the Atlantic?

To be sure, it's not likely terrorism. But, as others mentioned, when terrorism is ruled out before they even know what happened, I get skeptical.

For a bomb to go off on an airplane precisely where and when it did would be the perfect crime if remaining hidden, or under the radar so to speak, was the point.

As long as we are talking theories - Could be a training run. I know at one point there was a plot to destroy around 20 planes simultaneously in route to the U.S.

“Let’s think about this, though. Are there any logical reasons why a terrorist group would not want to be discovered? At least immediately?”

Wasn’t Richard Reid (aka Abdul Raheem) intially supposed to be the test platform for the shoeboom to be used on later flights?

If this was a test also, then having it go down in an unrecoverable area would conceal the new methods, so they could be used on other flights.

Personally, though, my guess is that this was due to weather and airframe breakup in turbulance. But just my guess.