Mechanical engineer (Formerly at Lockheed Martin) & Licensed Private Pilot.
And you don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out that a disintigrating engine isn't going to knock the tail off of an airplane. It just doesn't pass the "sniff test". Then again, neither did the official story on TWA 800.
I can hardly wait to see the nifty CIA-produced video they use to explain how engine fragments can cause an aircraft to come apart into such small pieces in mid-air.