[sinkspur]

Thrust reverser actuation is obvious on both the flight data recorder and by inspecting an engine after a crash. No evidence of a thrust reverser actuation was found.

John. You're correct, of course.

But the government covered it up!

Get with the conspiracy, man. Rationality has NO place when a juicy opportunity to gin up a cover-up presents itself.

If Michael Rivero hadn't been kicked off Free Republic, we'd have seen fifteen threads on this foolishness by now.

[inflorida]

So I guess we can assume this was only bad luck.
Although there is only about one plane crash a year, if even that, there is nothing to suspect with the crash of flight 587.
These things happen. Even if this crash was only two months after terrorists flew commercial jets into the World Trad Centers...

[UberVernunft]

Get with the conspiracy, man. Rationality has NO place when a juicy opportunity to gin up a cover-up presents itself.

Which cover-up are you referring to -- defective aircraft or sabotage?

Once you answer this question why don't you explain to all of us why would refer to one "conspiracy" over another? Oh, and why would you choose the word "conspiracy" in this context. We are basically dealing with unknown factors leading to a crash, *not* a supression of evidence. *If* there was strong evidence for sabotage and yet the NTSB continued pushing an implausable explanation for the crash we might term that a "conspiracy" -- otherwise you're just throwing out the term in some mindless manner.