[Loopy]

No it doesn't. It just means that the engine came off before the plane crashed.

Re: Bomb theories. I would think it difficult to plant a timed bomb because with airport delays and all you wouldn't know when it would go off. So I would discount that possibility. Maybe a radio detonator but I don't know about ranges. Right now I would guess that it is unrelated to terrorism simply because no other planes have gone down yet. OBL tends to work in rushes.

[neutrino]

Re: Bomb theories. I would think it difficult to plant a timed bomb because with airport delays

How about an aneroid bomb? As I understand it, the baggage compartment isn't pressurized...so, if one were to set the thing to go off at a certain altitude, it could have precisely these effects.

I flagged Harp for his insights....

[dennisw]

How about a bomb on the wing... next to engine ..... or in engine.... with a detonator that is set off by increasing altitude?

[Dems_R_Losers]

A timed bomb is EXACTLY what this sounds like. The plane was supposed to leave at 8:00 a.m. By 9:15 it would have been over water and no traces of the plane, the recorders, or the passengers would have been found. This is Lockerbie all over again - remember Pan Am 103 was also late and changed course, which was why the bomb exploded with the plane over land instead of water. Stupid terrorists again. They seem to be completely dense about the fact that planes rarely leave on time, especially when they have a full complement of passengers going abroad, as this one did today. The black boxes will be recovered from this plane which will tell us a lot, just as with Pan Am 103, and if there was a bomb, the materials will be found in the wreckage.

Eyewitness on NBA reported seeing something fall off the plane and a small fire, then it went down nose first. Dr. Arnot saying this sounds very similar to the Chicago DC-10 crash.

[joathome]

"Re: Bomb theories. I would think it difficult to plant a timed bomb because with airport delays and all you wouldn't know when it would go off."

So, the bomb would go off on the runway, and not in the air. Kill less people. It would still scare the you-know-what out of everyone. I think terrorists are going to do what they can when they can. Any kind of bomb is a possibility.