[nicmarlo]

FYI: Thought this might be of interest to you. Was posted on another site: eyewitness "Ken" transcribed

the engine was making weird sounds, so we stopped the boat and we were back by the engine and I heard a popping sound...not like a a a I cant even say it was an explosion, it was more like a pop and then like a whishing sound and then part of the wing came off.

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That plane as soon as its tail came off it just bellied up and went straight down, so yah know people saying yah know the engine came off, but that came off after the fact. Now as far as explosion, something was happening over the bay, something made the wing shatter and took of the tail. and uh the way I seen it , it still looked like it had its engines on as it was going down.

[concerned about politics]

Thanks for the eye witness post.
Sounds like a hit to me.
Lets see if the gov. spills it, or just makes us "feel better" with a nice little engine malfunction story.

[DugwayDuke]

Evidently the interview with Ken is correct. MSNBC is running video of a police boat hoisting a large tail segment out of Jamaca Bay. Hard to estimate size but the boat is the size of a small tug, 30 feet of tail wouldn't be a bad estimate of the size of the tail. MSNBC anchor guy is saying the video is near the end of the runway indicating the tail separated prior to the engines or wings.