[riri]

oh, yes, but ofcourse!

[Black Agnes]

Kamikaze geese!

[Woodstock]

Yah right....but no one in the cockpit is recorded saying, 'OH $hit! Where are those windshield wipers!'

[anniegetyourgun]

Obviously this kind of thing never happens, the government officials must be lying, and we'll never know the real truth.

How am I doing? Do I have this down yet?

[KirklandJunction]

Do the bird ingestion tests now use one bird or more? Only one back in the '60s.

[Syncro]

I guess this is one of the airports with out falconers.

[NautiNurse]

This possible cause was discussed yesterday on one of the news channels. Apparently, birds are enough of a problem at JFK Airport, they have used cannons prior to takeoff. When I heard this story yesterday, I recall wondering if this was a viable possibility in mid-November. I would have thought the birds had already started their migration by now.

Any bird watching afficionados in the know?

[callisto]

both engines possibly suffered bird strikes.

The possibility also exists that one or both engines had some foreign object or debris deliberately placed in them. Wouldn't that also allow for the supposed delay on the ground prior to take off?

I see many plausible scenarios here, but they haven't presented enough facts yet to determine credibly the cause of the accident. Hopefully more will be forthcoming soon.

[d14truth]

'Aviation related problem'--- 'A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS'???

[rit]

perhaps it was a bird brain that was responsible for this theory

[EggsAckley]

NTSB: "They're just not buying the mechanical failure thing,
we gotta come up with something else, fast. Ooh, ooh, I GOT it!
We'll blame it on a bird, no, better yet, a FLOCK of birds!
Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket."

[demsux]

All your birds are belong to us.

[TheRightGuy]

Another possibility, these people suggested, is that both engines possibly suffered bird strikes.

Osama's Air Force?

[VRWC_minion]

So its the fault of enviromentalist wackos who insist on the nature preserve ?

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

PETA won't like this. But birds must be barred from the US without the proper passports.

[concerned about politics]

You mean to tell me a flockin' bird took the plane down? Pleeeease!
The bird must have bit the wing off and spit it at the tail.
It was like a giant bird fight?
I'm sorry, but this story just doesn't fly well.

[NorseWood]

What a bunch of turkeys!!

[concerned about politics]

both engines possibly suffered bird strikes.

OH, so it was a stratigic bird attack!

[IW]

Yeah, and I just heard FBI retired SAC James Kalstrom, announce that TWA Flight 800 was now brought down by two pelicans and a seagull.

[anymouse]

Must be a bunch of suicide Talaban turkeys or Al-Queda albatrosses bent on taking out the infidel humans. /sarcasm