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> Actually, you're letting your shotgun mouth get ahead of your BB gun butt. The latest is that the pilot was dumping fuel seconds after take-off. Pilots dump fuel when they believe they can return to an airport. Not likely that this was terrorism. More likely that it was catastrophic engine failure.

Sinkspur, WHY NO COMMUNICATION????? NONE? There are usually more than one person in the cockpit. Why, if the pilot could have been dumping fuel, which I've been told is unlikely according to the type of plane it was, wouldn't SOMEONE have radioed the tower? Think about it before you start insulting people who are rightly untrusting of government pronouncements, especially the NTSB, none of whom were on the scene until AFTER the fact and AFTER many eyewitnesses had already been heard from.

Why no communication? Because of the cheapskate airline people, cockpit crews were cut from three to two people. With at least one engine having departed the wing, it probably took all the strength and concentration of the two pilots to give the plane a fighting chance of maybe getting to the ground safely. Aviate, navigate, communicate. The CVR is running, they know it will record whatever's going on. Flights in trouble have been lost because the pilot chose to talk, rather than fly. This is not unusual.