That must have been one heck of a big bird. Maybe a radioactive mutant bird from Mars. Or a previously-thought to-be-extinct Pterodactyl, 100 feet across.
Oh! Oh! I got it! Airport security was so tight that the Tally-bunnies couldn't smuggle any bombs on board, so they strapped plastique to specially trained geese, and had them attack the plane on take-off. Kind of like Day of the Dolphin, only with birds instead. Yeah, that's the ticket!
It was proven in the TWA800 events that our government is quite capable of formulating a phony theory to explain an airplane crash and use every resource to get people (sheeple in your case) to believe it.
Our government has over the last several decades been very open in showing us that propaganda has a very large value to them. If the terrorists kill 265 people in a nation of 300 million, then this means nothing. But if the terrorists can convince the 300 million people that they can and will routinely blow up an airplane and kill 265 people in the process, then they have scored a victory. In this case it seems most likely to me that the terrorists are to be denied their victory despite putting in the effort to achieve it.
Witnesses say that one side of the plane just blew up in midair, that the explosion was in the fuselage even, pieces of the plane went in separate directions. How long before fascists like you will call these people liars and say that these witnesses are only motivated by a dislike of George Bush? You have said that others who ask questions are motivated by an irrational dislike of Bush even though they didn't mention Bush' name, won't you say it about these witnesses? Come on, make a jerk of yourself, or better yet, just be quiet if you are only a nattering nabob of negativism.