[NeroASERCH]

~90 dead including the wife of the French ambassador. Lesson for Hezbollah, stop transporting explosives in civilian airliners, they are somewhat unstable and can detonate.

I eagerly await Turkey and Lebanon and Iran's claims of "the Jews did it".

[Raj_Copi_Jin]

Really? An eye witness reported a fireball but I assumed he meant from impact.

[tgs]

Just my guess. It was a brand new plane. Bad weather true but unlikely to be a catastrophic mechanical failure.

[Beerinkol]

What about lightening? The weather was tempestuous enough perhaps.

Some crash stats:
http://www.b737.org.uk/accident_reports.htm

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http://aviation-safety.net/database/...php?type=103-8

http://aviation-safety.net/database/...?id=20100125-0

I see Ryanair had the plane previously - just saying is all.

[Ifroham4]

It's a thread in a forum, on the internet. It's not the UN.

[HedgeYourBets]

Actually there's some buzz this was a para military terrorist attack aimed at the French ambassador's wife who may or may not have been an intelligence asset. It was also claimed that Hamas leaders may have been targeted. From Debka. The Lebanese transportation minister commented early that the plane had exploded in the air.

[PhillipHer]

It's a thread in a forum, on the internet. It's not the UN.

To the politburo the Jews rule the world, so stating things in any venue that has enough of them assumes to inform the rest that the jig is up.