Ken Hamblin has had some good discussions on this. He says his "Klingon tractor beam" theory has as much validity as the "turbulance" line from the NTSB. He also remarked that the pilot asked for more power, rather than less which is typical if there is a problem. So much has been going on in Europe with terrorists for years; but rather than learn - we seem to have adopted the same sorry procedures which garnered problems for them. WE would all be better off if we used correct terminology - STATISTICAL profiling rather than "racial" profiling - which gets people are upset and is incorrect as well. In WA a man's 6 year old son was frightened because he was the 5th person and therefore "checked out." Not a very efficient use of time I think. (Unless middle est terrorists are now going afer pre-school age suicide bombers...)