When an incident is "covered up," you don't see the evidence. That's why they call it a "cover up," I'm told.
General Meyers, on all TV networks in an interview recently, stated that the al Qaeda terrorits have "300 to 400 Stinger missiles." (anti-aircraft missiles) I'm not saying it was a Stinger, yet.
Even if the government covered it up, wouldn't average people be blabbering to the press???
Besides, wouldn't a terrorist attack be more beneficial than a mechanical failure??? A mechanical failure would cause major overhauls of all Airbus 300 planes and destroy the airline industry. A terrorist attack would result in "tighter security measures". A terrorist attack would not destroy the insurance industry the same way as would a mechanical failure.
Whenever the plane paieces were still scorching and too hot to touch, we were reassured that there was no evidence that this was a terrorist attack.