[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Egyptian and French officials rushed to exclude terrorism as a possible cause for the crash of a charter plane after it took off for Paris from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

They seem in a bit of a hurry!

[Paladin2]

These would be the same Egyptians who don't think their pilot augured one into the Ocean after leaving NYC?

[ZOOKER]

Egyptian and French officials rushed to exclude terrorism as a possible cause for the crash of a charter plane after it took off for Paris from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

They seem in a bit of a hurry!

Not surprising. The Egyptians want to avoid another tourism scare, of course. I don't know why dying from terrorism is more frightening than dying from an accident, but it is.

The French have an agenda, too, since the plane that crashed was built by their competitor (Boeing). If the cause is ruled to be terrorism, Airbus and Boeing both lose orders, but if it's a defect in a Boeing plane, Airbus can gain from it.

Unless there's some independent oversight, this investigation may need to be investigated...

[FairOpinion]

Check out this thread -- the main article and the Debka article I posted.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1050977/posts

"Coincidentally" Tony Blair was vacationing with family at SHARM EL-SHEIK, the very place, from where the plane took off.

[MattAMiller]

Kind of depends on what they know at this point. The lack of debris tends to suggest that the plane went into the water in one piece. He have no reports of anybody hearing an explosion. Not any witnesses, not in air traffic control, not on the cell call that was made from the plane. There's no sign of a hijacking either.

So saying it's not terrorism may be a bit premature, but that is the way is looks.

[thesummerwind]

Egypt rules out terrorism in Red Sea plane crash

Park Police (Ft. Marcy) rule out foul play in Foster death.