11/12 Extra: Plane crashes in New York

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Originally posted by CharlieG
Internal reports say that the airplane on the runway behind the airbus saw smoke coming from the engine

Sounds like mechanical failure

But an airliner with engine trouble does not scatter its parts across the landscape. The body of the plane drove head first into Rockaway. The tail has already separated and was in Rockaway Inlet - really part of the Bay - is that Sheep's Meadow Bay? The right engine disengaged from the wing. Too many major structural parts separated thereby causing loss of stability. Considering current wartime conditions, this is suspicous even though the authorities are handling it as a mechanical failure.

Maybe it was a mechanical failure. But the failure causes the planes structure to disintegrate in flight.

One problem common to that side of JFK was birds being injested by engines. That side of JFK is a national bird reserve.