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.
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.