Don't forget about the Flight 587.
I still think that was the 1st shoe bomber.
http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2002/1/7/100411 Monday, Jan. 7, 2002 11:03 a.m. EST
Flight 587 Witnesses Charge Cover-Up
Dozens of eyewitnesses to the Nov. 12 crash of American Airlines Flight 587 now say the government is ignoring their claims that the Airbus 300 exploded in midair before breaking up minutes after takeoff at New York's JFK airport.
Six Flight 587 witnesses, including a recently retired police lieutenant and a fire department deputy chief, have written to the National Transportation Safety Board to demand a full public hearing on what they saw, the New York Post reported Monday.
"The NTSB is not acknowledging the many eyewitness accounts of the in-flight fire or explosion, many from people who are adamant that the fire occurred before any tail or engine breakup," retired firefighter and eyewitness Tom Lynch told the paper.
Lynch said he saw two fireballs erupt from the plane's right side and insisted, "There were no falling parts until the second explosion of flames - I'll go to my grave with that."
Another witness not quoted by the Post corroborated Lynch's account almost exactly in an interview just minutes after the crash.
Jackie Powers told ABC-News in New York that she saw "an enormous flash" on the right side of the plane's fuselage, with debris exiting to the left.
"The right wing seemed to catch fire and explode. The wing was on fire with a trail of smoke behind it," a third witness told New York's WABC Radio that morning.
I still think that was the 1st shoe bomber.I have thought the same thing since the failed attempt by the captured shoe-bomber. Too many witnesses saw a fire/explosion BEFORE the disintegration of the plane. The coverup makes sense unfortunately. Who would fly after that, especially so soon after Sept. 11.