[Lucas1]

It is not being reported as a Terrorist Attack. If FOX news said that then they are full of it. They are saying it was most likely not a terrorist attack. Smoke was coming from the plane before it hit - the guy was 70 years old - sounds like a freak accident. But I am sure a bunch of the tin hat folks in here will have it as a terrorist attack no matter what - like chickens running around with their heads cut off

[Diddle E. Squat]

While I agree that it is silly how every incident is viewed by some as either OBL, anthrax/smallpox/botulism, or a sign of the Apocalypse, speculation that this is terrorism is CERTAINLY reasonable. Can you cite an example of a plane crashing into a skyscraper before 9/11? The odds of a plane, even with engine trouble, crashing into a tall building is astronomical, considering how very, very little of the overall landscape a single building takes up. And then to hit it in the center. The only reasonable explanation I've heard so far is that the pilot was trying to land on a wide street nearby.

[CWRWinger]

Maybe this 70 year old guy was protesting his country's social security benefits, or lack of them.

[wheezer]

But I am sure a bunch of the tin hat folks in here will have it as a terrorist attack no matter what - like chickens running around with their heads cut off

You got that right.

There are still even a bunch of dopes on his forum who think TWA Flight 800 was brought down by a missile as opposed to the center fuel tank exploding (as was demostrated by that great gov-financed cartoon).

[rwfromkansas]

While closing the Milan airport is suspicious to me, the fact that there was smoke coming out of the plane before it hit, combined with the SOS (which I recognize could be an attempt to cover up a real attack), makes me believe it was an accident.