[mad_as_he$$]

Or a bomb that just crippled it and did not finish it off.

[plain talk]

Or a bomb that just crippled it and did not finish it off.

Yes I have thought of that. Unfortunately it seems many think in black and white terms - if it was a bomb they think the whole plane had to have been blown into a zillion pieces - or if it was not a bomb it would have happened another way.