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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.

A timed bomb is EXACTLY what this sounds like.

And full of fuel!!!

I with you on the bomb theory: New, well-maintained plane. Two months after 9/11. Osama said more planes would fall. Airport security still a joke. New York airports are rife with Mob activity, illegal aliens, and corruption. Baggage bombs are not rocket science - the recipe is no doubt in that "terror manual." New York is Osama's favorite target. He likes layered multiple attacks.

Weight all that against the odds that a random catastorphic failure would occur in this time, in that location, on that kind of plane, and you would bet real money on it having been a bomb.

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.

Barometric trigger would be the way to go. But it could be they have a reason for not liking or trusting barometric triggers. Plus the bomb may have been a rushed job and the bomb trigger only knew how to do it with a timer.

An airplane taken down by a terrorist will make up everyone take notice. If the plane falls into the water (the optimum) or crashes on land is secondary.