FYI, sharky, and all, I was on some of those first and very early threads re that flight. There were lots of posts made about eyewitnesses to hearing an explosion or seeing what looked like an explosion....and then the area of explosion on the plane didn't coincide with the later reports. Also, the other oddity was that immediately after the plane was down, it was declared that it was NOT a terrorist act....even though no investigation could have even been performed yet. I didn't stay on that thread forever, but did for quite some time. If I recall, there were experts in their fields (investigators, engineers, etc.), commenting on the oddities based on what they knew, generally, and what the news was....seemed to not be "right."
That was EgyptAir 990 that went down in the Atlantic soon after take-off from Kennedy airport (a popular place for terrorism) in October, 1999. President Clinton and a couple of cabinet members went before the press soon after the plane disappeared in the middle of the night, well before any investigation could get underway, and announced it was not a terrorist act. I knew immediately that it was a terrorist act. That's the way to listen to liars.