[Roccus]

I actually had a coworker who lived right under the flight path for that plane. Just so happened to be walking his dog and glanced up at a flash of light as it flew over. He said it looked like a flash of a small explosion and then the tail fell off.

Have a friend who was on a fishing boat in Jamaica Bay, almost under that plane who said the exact same thing. Flash, gyrations, plane started coming apart. They were so close that the boat went and held station over where the tail section had sunk in the South Channel until Harbor G (NYPD) got there.

[Black Agnes]

I knew a freeper (RIP harpseal) who said the same thing. IIRC he was somewhere out there with friends. One or more was former military and knew what they’d seen.