[Nimitz]

The problem is that you never will hear it. The NTSB is not off the hook. Both the GE CF56 and the GE 90 can withstand a SEA of pelicans! I'm looking for the link showing a clip of 2 FROZEN 20 lb turkeys being let go mechanically into the mouth of one of these suckers. It just spits it out in a fog. The NTSB is counting on the technical ignorance of the general population to float this lie. Bird strikes are not a viable source of FOD resulting in a MAJOR mechanical failure/fire/engine separation in this day and age; the only way they become a legitimate candidate is with some VERY OLD airframes. Granted, an engine could be shutdown on vibs (vibrations) due to birdstrike and possibly restarted, but how do we explain the tail in the drink before the plane reached land, or the massive explosion and subsequent fire?

This has the smell of a Clinton debacle. God Help Us............please.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Both the GE CF56 and the GE 90 can withstand a SEA of pelicans!

Uh oh. Not again! I'm trying to be skeptical here. How can I stay blissfully ignorant when you get factual?

If it was, in fact, terrorism, I guess the government doesn't want to give the terrorists any credit.

On the other hand, we need to examine the list of passengers. [Queasy feeling.]

[ScreamingFist]

"The NTSB is not off the hook. Both the GE CF56 and the GE 90 can withstand a SEA of pelicans! I'm looking for the link showing a clip of 2 FROZEN 20 lb turkeys being let go mechanically into the mouth of one of these suckers. It just spits it out in a fog."

Uh huh. And if you believe they actually go fly those engines after the test, without re-smoothing/replacing the turbine blades, I got some land to sell you.

[EggsAckley]

This has the smell of a Clinton debacle.

That's probably because most of the people involved are Clinton's sloppy seconds.

[Fury]

Bird strikes are not a viable source of FOD resulting in a MAJOR mechanical failure/fire/engine separation in this day and age; the only way they become a legitimate candidate is with some VERY OLD airframes.

Please, your ignorance is showing.