[glock rocks]

How about the Airbus 300 with the detachable tail (and magic flaming engine) over Long Island right after 9/11? Richard Reid's got nothin on these guys.

[blackdog]

Had TWA 800 been called a terrorist shootdown as Clinton had first been quoted as stating, attention to terrorism would have become a top priority long ago. The security would have most likely thwarted the twin towers.

No, instead everyone rallied to the tune of James Kallstrom and his mythical sideshow despite radar tracking ATC controllers, several hundred witnesses, and people who had to steal sections of seats in order to get NMR, Mass Spec, and Gas Chroatograph analysis done(of course regardless of the tests, you arrest and imprison those investigators)

[eno_]

How about the Airbus 300 with the detachable tail

Yeah, that's another good one. The real puzzle is, of course, what doesn't get mentioned much: Both engines came off, too. Here's the key hint: The tail and engines came off for the same reason.