[KC_for_Freedom]

I don't think this will hold up,
The tampered hose would be discovered in the wreakage
I think a partial thrust reversal would be evident to the trained crew. It makes one heck of a roar.
Unsaid in the scenario is a massive cover up similar to the TWA 800 fiasco. This may have occurred, but the adults are back in the white house and this president does not seem like the type to lie to the American Public.

[okie01]

"I don't think this will hold up, The tampered hose would be discovered in the wreakage"

Newsmax's expert, Marshall Smith, is evidently unfamiliar with some of the A-300 features, as well.

From an earlier thread, which included A-300 pilots and an aircraft engineer with a company who manufactures nacelles, we discovered that any damage to the hydraulics would make it impossible to deploy the thrust reversers -- the exact opposite of what the expert contends.

Moreover, the A-300 edition that American flies is not "fly by wire". This controversial approach was first employed on the A-320.

Let's put it this way: if it was sabotage, it had nothing to do with the thrust reversers.