[Centurion2000]

Or - and this is proving to be the most uncomfortable question of all - in the moments before the airliner piled into the black, spongey earth at 575mph did an American fighter pilot have to do the unthinkable and shoot down a US civil airliner?

It was shot down.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Do you see a smoke streak in this picture?

[willyone]

You must be one of Riveros buddies. Always a conspiracy somewhere. Just renew your SDS membership and be done with it. Fool.