[xm177e2]

Why would he dump his fuel without making a distress call? If a hijacker burst through the cockpit door, he might try that, but then how do you explain the explosion? If there was a bomb on board, he wouldn't dump the fuel.

Do you think it was a Stinger? Would the pilot try to dump the fuel so the missile wouldn't make such a big explosion?

[copycat]

If there was a bomb on board, he wouldn't dump the fuel.

several Posters have declared that the A300 CANNOT dump fuel. Thye only possibility is that fuel in Jamaica Bay was jettisoned from the wing fuel tank.

My personal theory is that someone got access to the plane long before takeoff and planted an altitude-triggerred bomb inside the wing, next to the fuel tank where it would not be discovered.

I have a hard time believing that the Jihad on America and this exploding plane are coincidence. Call me a nut.

IMHO...

[null and void]

The first hint of a Stinger attack would be the explosion...