[Cboldt]

-- I take more to mean they are going to try to use the incidents against Q's re: Booms. --

Sure, that's possible, but has the same issue of coming up with evidence. I don't think they need any pretext to try to ID and out Q, so all they get from these events is public distraction or preoccupation.

[No_Doll_i]

That is kinda what I meant. I am not very clear today.
;-)

[STARLIT]

“There’s a ring around the engine that’s meant to contain the engine pieces when this happens,” Goglia said. “In this case it didn’t. That’s going to be a big focal point for the NTSB: why didn’t [the ring] do its job?”

Photos posted by passengers showed a heavily damaged window near the damaged engine. The Boeing 737 apparently blew an engine at 30,000ft and was hit by shrapnel that smashed a window, damaged the fuselage