[COEXERJ145]

I'll wait to see what the CVR and FDR say before declaring the crash might have been terrorism.

The writer is basing his assumption on the basis of a phone call that could easily have been a nut case who thought making such a call would be real funny.

If I was a terrorist and wanted to attack France by attacking an aircraft, I wouldn't mess with some chartered Egyptian 737. I would take out an Air France Boeing 747-400 or 777-300 which would result in far higher casualties and a lot more general panic.

[Travis McGee]

Their crappy old manpad missiles failed to take down a DC-10. They may have selected the French 737 because they thought their missile would have greater success. Or it may simply have been a bomb carried aboard successfully due to crappy security.