[1Old Pro]

Since 9/11, airline security has been focused on passengers and their luggage

Yep, time to focus on the pilots, whether it's depression or a practicing Muslim - both carry risks.

[Yo-Yo]

I still say that there is something fishy about the aircraft on this flight.

EgyptAir flight MS803 from Cairo to Paris, and the return flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo, used a Boeing 737-800 for every single flight except one. That one flight was the Egypt Air flight MS804 on May 18 that went down. An Airbus A320 was substituted for the regular Boeing 737.

Did someone plant a bomb on the A320, then "caused" some sort of malfunction that required the A320 to be substituted for the scheduled jet? Here is FlightAware's information for flight MS803, and you can see that all previous flights were with the B737, and two subsequent scheduled flights are with a B737, but the doomed flight used an A320.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/MSR803

[rwoodward]

hmmmm...considering the fact that all those weapons and missiles went missing in Libya, and the plane went down near Libya...
just another one of the many casualties of the failed Hilary/Obama foreign policy strategy!

[babble-on]

"an honest appraisal of who stood to gain"

That should NEVER be used as an evidentiary standard.

[Capt. Tom]

Islam doesn't have a "violence" problem. That is merely an inevitable downstream consequence of the fundamental principle that animates Islam, that being a devotion to achieving theological and political supremacy over all the earth and its people, as commanded by Islam's prophet, Mohammed.
This teaching is a core element of Islam and renders it poisonous to humanity.

Nice to read an article on Islam where the author sees the problem, which is Islam itself, and following it the way Allah wants, and following the examples set by Muhammad.
Nothing radical or extreme about that.
It is Muslim fundamentalism in action. -Tom

[wideminded]

Authorities almost immediately agreed that MS804 was likely the victim of a terrorist attack.

But now they're backing off because it looks like there could possibly have been some kind of fire.

This plane, which originated in Cairo as MS803, was set for a round-trip journey to Paris.

The plane was also in Tunisia, Belgium, and Eritrea in the couple of days before the crash.

[B212]

simple task....ingest a bomb, and detonate with a magnetic switch....

[Paleo Conservative]

Perhaps the plane was rigged when it was previously in Cairo. That way no one would have to get through security in Paris.

[hattend]

Remind me to never fly through Paris

[r_barton]

Great security at French airports /sarcasm

“Arabic graffiti daubed on easyJet planes at French airports” - Sun, Nov 29, 2015
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/622702/easyJet-Paris-attacks-France

[Yaelle]

Well, which is it? Did this plane stop in Eritrea and Tunisia that day as well, or not?? This is the first I’ve read that it originated in Egypt and ONLY went to Paris and “back” to Egypt.