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Does anyone think this air crash investigation will be anything like the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerolinee_Itavia_Flight_870 investigation? It also exploded over sea, pieces were found. First they thought it exploded due to a missile from a military jet. Then some engineers found out that the explosion was a bomb in a rear airplane toilet.

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No one know yet. Until they found the aircraft and the blackbox, they can only suspect. There are reports of passengers checked in with stolen passports but the government and the airline think the possibility of terrorism is low. Let's hope we can discover the missing aircraft soon.

TWA 800 is perhaps the more familiar example, at least to anyone in the New York area. Plenty of theories about a missile in that case too, but the actual cause was an electrical fault.

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