[Basilides]

Thank you...I thought I was being a bit paranoid...but will somebody please explain how an entire vertical stabilizer comes off the jet intact before impact ???

I hope this doesn't go the way of Flight 800...

[ScholarWarrior]

Another thread quotes Fox 5 in NY interview with a Kenneth Brown on a boat in Jamaica Bay.
Eyewitness who helped recover the tail.
He said there was an explosion on the left side of the airplane which tore the wing off.
Wing hits tail and tears it off intact.
Plane, in 6 seconds goes belly up into Rockaway, with other engine still turning.

I'm leaning more bomb than either sabotage or cat. engine failure.

[Moonman62]

Thank you...I thought I was being a bit paranoid...but will somebody please explain how an entire vertical stabilizer comes off the jet intact before impact ???

Some witnesses have said that parts of the wing came off and hit the tail. The flaps on an A300 are huge and are a possibility. This is starting to sound like a one in a million accident. The Bush Administration must have more info than we do because they reopened the airports fairly quickly, they didn't ground departing flights, and no other planes went down, which I would have expected if it was terrorism.