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You know what? I'm getting really tired of experts such as yourself insinuating that anyone who questions the latest NTSB/CNN "most probable cause of crash" theories is a tin-foil hat wearing, Yeti chasing, Whack job conspiracy theorist.

The first thing we heard from these folks, in the face of many eyewitness reports that the plane blew up in midair, was that "terrorism is not suspected". Next we hear that since there is no evidence of terrorism, there's no need to investigate the matter as anything more than an accident. "Uncontained engine failure" we were told. This is why the eyewitnesses saw an explosion and the plane wing and fuselage in flames before it folded up and fell to the ground. Not terrorists, you tinfoilers! People questioned how such a failure could rip the plane apart. "It certainly could rip the plane apart!" the experts such as yourself re-assured. But there are no penetrations of the cowling around the engine. Uncontained failure is ruled out.

OK then, how about a goose? It was obviously a goose strike or something similar that caused the engines to fall off. A goose will not usually rip a plane apart, but hey, it sometimes happens. Anyone who thinks this was some kind of terrorist act is a kook! A goose is a much more likely explanation. But there's no evidence of geese or engine failure.

Ok then, how about a "wake" from a plane that took off 2m 20s earlier? Those wakes are quite vicious. Strong swirling winds from a preceding takeoff must have ripped the beautiful though extremely delicate Airbus into chunks. 2m 20s is an unreasonably long period of time for the wake to have propagated?

Ok then, the Airbus must have caught up to the plane that was ahead of it. Not that such an event would have turned up on the control tower radar. See, even CNN agrees, 2m 20s has now become 1m 30s and a catch-up!

Once the wake theory is discounted, perhaps NSTB/CNN will tell us that some heavy baggage must have shifted, or that an unusually large bug hit the windshield, causing the exact type of vibration needed to disintegrate the airframe kingpin that keeps the plane from blowing up.

People do not like being taken for fools. Given that crashing planes full of people and fuel has featured prominently in terrorist activities in the last few years, and since the U.S. is under attack by terrorists, and since everyone has been beseeched again and again to be on the highest possible permanent state of alert it might seem logical to suspect and investigate this as a deliberate act. That's just plain nutty hey Paul? Why don't we have an inquiry into Bigfoot... idiot.