..how can we doubt the veracity of these accounts?
We argue over minutia while the terrorists rachet up their brazenness.
We have Fort Hood.
We have the four police officers killed...(suspicion the guy was Muslim)
The bombing of the luxury train in Russia...
..and no doubt countless more that our media is carefully omitting from reporting.
Who in the world would print any of this, or allow personal reports in the media about this...
..at Christmastime, when travel is at its highest level.
Who will take the blame when we gloss over this account as being too unbelievable...
..and thousands are massacred.
As you say. It's crucial that the details be scrutinized to see what makes sense, what doesn't or needs to be further explained: that's the strength of FR. It's what brought us here in the first place and makes sites like this so important as the OM continues to let us down.
Even if some of the details we're looking at in an email are not correct (they are, after all, a single person's recall), it doesn't negate that something odd (in the least) happened on flight 297.
We know why we're not seeing this in the news. We need to be outraged by that as well as by the lack of coverage of the original story. If we are not ... then we are losing our edge.