[Strategerist]

Now, as the National Transportation Safety Board prepares to release its final report on the crash of American Flight 587 in Queens three years ago, an internal memo from Airbus dated five weeks after the 1997 accident documents that the company already knew that if a pilot abruptly moves the rudder back and forth, the force can break the tail -- the major lesson from the Flight 587 investigation.

Wow, the evil geniuses at the NTSB had enough foresight to forge a memo in 1997 from Airbus just in case an Airbus crashed due to a Shoebomb four years later and they needed to cover it up!

(Sarcasm off)

[RayChuang88]

Psst--if there was a passenger detonating a shoe bomb just when the plane took off you'd see 1) the chemical residue from the explosion and 2) the blast pattern from an explosion. The NTSB didn't find either case.