[Bobby777]

what is the actual MPH of 240 knots?

[KellyAdmirer]

Engines are designed to break off when a plane spirals violently.

? How is having no engines on a plane with absolutely no gliding ability supposed to help anything?

[lelio]

So let me get this straight: this is a problem with Airbus planes yet few of them have been grounded to fix it? Something's not right here.

[Monty22]

This whole thing stinks. The hour this happened, they were going on the 'it's not a bomb' stuff instantly. I mean, instantly.

They had no clue.

What they want us to believe is that a bunch of loud noises happened, and the plane just fell apart on its own. I guess it is possible, but c'mon.

[exit82]

The tail fell off. But was that the initiating event?

Notice there is not one recollection of the eyewitnesses that said there was an explosion near the fuselage at the right wing which started everything. And with all of the video cameras in the area on buildings, at the airport, etc, there is no video evidence of what happened.

The eyewitness reports have gone down the memory hole. If the tail really fell of and we still don't know why, why wasn't every Airbus grounded? They kept right on flying, didn't they?

I believe this was the first shoe bomber. The bomb blew through the hydraulic control cables below the floor of the cabin, severed the ones with the tail, the tail fin started flapping in the breeze without control and snapped off.

The first shoe bomber caught was three weeks later, Richard Reid.

For some reason, our government has been lying about
Flight 587, like TWA 800 and the OC bombing, since day one.
Tails don't just pop off; and planes don't get hit by vortexes when the takeoff pattern and timing is the same day after day after day.

There have been many previous threads on this subject on FR, which are worth reading.

[Publius6961]

The crew of a doomed American Airlines jetliner apparently was unaware the tail fin had fallen off as they

I could tell this would be an authoritative article after reading this.
Have Americans been dumbed down to the point where they (in addition to the author) is unfamiliar with the common word: "rudder"?

[Willie Green]

Makes me wonder if the media is going to campaign for installation of a "your-tail-fell-off" warning light.

[midwestmidnight]

"If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going!"