[r9etb]

Damn, it's starting to look like maybe the "tin foil hat" crowd might not be too far off the mark on this one. Interesting.

The only possible way they could be right is if the tape showed an explosion. That seems doubtful: Nov. 12, the day of the crash, was a cloudless day in New York, a fact that makes that "puff of white smoke" particularly problematic for investigators who have bent over backwards to ignore the accounts of dozens of eyewitnesses who say they saw a midair explosion and fire before the plane broke apart.

There's a pretty vast difference between a "puff of white smoke", and "midair explosion and fire," Mr. Lamebacker's efforts notwithstanding.

So if this is all NewsMax -- itself a tinfoil-leaning group -- can say, then the tinfoilers are as wrong as they usually are. Note that none of the details add up to anything that a loss of the vertical stabilizer cannot explain.

[MsLady]

Perhaps it didn't need to be a big fireball explosion to bring it down. It could have been a shoe bomb that exploded cracking the hull of the plane. I would think that would be enough to bring it down.

[MsLady]

Perhaps it didn't need to be a big fireball explosion to bring it down. It could have been a shoe bomb that exploded cracking the hull of the plane. I would think that would be enough to bring it down.

[sharktrager]

"...Mr. Lamebacker's efforts notwithstanding"

I can understand disagreeing with him, but is a personal insult necessary to make a point?

[Reactionary]

I don't think the tape shows an "explosion." Not exactly. It shows something else. And, just for the record, it will never see the light of day.

[mgstarr]

Some people seem to derive a lot more satisfaction by concocting elaborate (but improbable) conspiracy theories that always point to some shadowy group of government or quasi government officials - like the secretive cabal on The X-Files.
Unfortunately the truth is often boring and apparent.

[Egg]

Click your heals and repeat after me:

"There's no place like pre-9/11 America; There's no place like pre-9/11 America..."

I hope it wasn't another successful terrorism attack, but you seem close-minded to the possibility, indeed probability, that it was.