Reply #112: The hysterical reaction here is telling.

[JackRiddler]

Either the plane was already fucked up two days before and the company's corrupt and dangerous (like corporations tend to be) or it was the birds after all. So what's with all the conspiracy hysteria expressed at the suggestion it might not be the birds?! I'm going to guess birds have caused fewer commercial plane crashes than mechanical defects - and who cares? Neither's very exotic, what's the big deal either way? Why would faraway observers on this thread have a stake in this? Some people act like the legitimacy of the whole society and their "rational" worldview is at risk if the explanation for any event turns out to be sinister after all.