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.
I'm leaning more bomb than either sabotage or cat. engine failure.
It's starting to sound to me like a re-run of the Concorde accident: tire picks up runway debris and hurls it into the wing, fracturing it and starting a fuel leak... fire ensues... piece of wing shears off and takes out the tail, per witness. End of airplane.
It's starting to sound to me like a re-run of the Concorde accident: tire picks up runway debris and hurls it into the wing, fracturing it and starting a fuel leak... fire ensues... piece of wing shears off and takes out the tail, per witness. End of airplane.