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Perhaps I haven't followed the news closely enough, but wasn't the Ethiopian plane also spewing excess smoke at the time of the crash? If so, wouldn't that sug

• xefer 8y ago
  There were eye witness reports to that effect, but the proof would be in the flight recorders. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airplane-witnesses/ethiopian-plane-smoked-and-shuddered-before-deadly-plunge-idUSKBN1QS1LJ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airplane-witness...
• msbarnett 8y ago
  Eyewitness reports of plane crashes nearly always involve fires in locations no two eye-witnesses agree on, smoke, wings falling off, etc. These are rarely born out by subsequent investigations. See, eg, " Reliability of Eyewitness Reports to a Major Aviation Accident" https://commons.erau.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1040&context=ijaaa https://commons.erau.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1040&co.... A plane crash is a very fast, horrifying tragedy to witness. It shouldn't be surprising that peoples' imperfect memories afterwards are completely scrambled
  • ceejayoz 8y ago
    Yup. Even professional pilots get it all wrong: > almost all the eyewitnesses, including experienced pilots, gave grossly inaccurate accounts when compared to the film record