Take these testimonies with a bit of salt. The standard item in my repertoire on this is AA flight 587. “ According to the National Transportation Safety Board

Take these testimonies with a bit of salt. The standard item in my repertoire on this is AA flight 587. “ According to the National Transportation Safety Board, which announced this month that it had gathered 349 eyewitness accounts through interviews or written statements, 52 percent said they saw a fire while the plane was in the air. The largest number (22 percent) said the fire was in the fuselage, but a majority cited other locations, including the left engine, the right engine, the left wing, the right wing or an unspecified engine or wing. Nearly one of five witnesses said they saw the plane make a right turn; an equal number said it was a left turn. Nearly 60 percent said they saw something fall off the plane; of these, 13 percent said it was a wing. (In fact, it was the vertical portion of the tail.)” https://web.archive.org/web/20130518210525/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/weekinreview/23WALD.html https://web.archive.org/web/20130518210525/http://www.nytime...