[flea69]

Monday Nov. 12, 2001; 11:34 p.m. EST Former NTSB Official Doubts Accident Caused Flt. 587 Crash Aviation expert and former National Transportation & Safety Board official Vernon Grose said late Monday that he's increasingly skeptical that the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 was purely accidental. "I am backing away from the ready idea that this is simply an accident," Grose told Fox News Channel's John Scott. The veteran air crash prober said that he questions the sequence in which the plane broke up over Jamaica Bay before slamming into a residential area in Rockaway, Queens. "Photographs you've already shown tonight (indicate) the vertical stabilizer of the aircraft with the American Airlines insignia right on it (fell into) Jamaica Bay long before the engine falls off in Queens," he told Scott. Grose said that if the vertical stabilizer detached from Flt. 587 over Jamaica Bay, which the plane traversed before plummeting to the ground in Rockaway, it suggested that catastrophic engine failure alone may not have caused the crash. "No, I don't think that's the situation at all," he told FNC. "The engine that came free, which apparently was the number 1 left engine, and crashed on land. That was well after the vertical stabilizer was detached from the aircraft and that tells me that somehow..... the airplane was progressively disintegrating, not just losing an engine and then diving into the ground." "Earlier today I thought it was simply the loss of an engine that caused this," Grose said. "But I'm not convinced now.... I am becoming more skeptical."

[Texasforever]

Then we have an expert, though not on the scene, that is forming an opinion. However; that is not proof of anything. Once again, I don't know how many times the authorities have to state they are ruling nothing in OR out before it sinks in that no one knows for sure at this point.