Wow.
Sounds like maybe a manpad?
Wasnt the date significant for Saddam Hussein??? some sort of iraq thingy?
Maybe two of them - probably fired by some Amish fellows....
Yes, a lot of people swear that is how it went down.
There was a whole lot of conflicting information and IIRC a lot of the families had to wait a long time to get the remains of their loved one(s) and lie after lie was being told about the cause of the "accident". My former co-worker didn't have anything to say about this until days after she came back from the funeral. She said she was convinced the plane was shot out of the air, that the parents of her friend were convinced everyone on board was murdered and that the government was "screwing them around". I remember that phrase because the co-worker said it with such passion and disgust and insisted for days that the flight was shot out of the air. Most of the other coworkers kinda just chalked this up to her being distraught at the loss of her friend, they grew up together, were like sisters, did everything together, in fact IIRC they were roommates at the time. She was never the same after that and she was terrified to fly.
I remember it so clearly because we sat across from each other and she used to tell me all the time that she was afraid to fly and the parents of her friend were just plain afraid period because they knew the government was covering this up and they wanted answers as to why their "baby girl" (she was in her 20's) was murdered and why the government wasn't telling them the truth.