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What if the downing of the US Airways flight #1549 yesterday was not from a flock of Canadian geese but actually a terrorist attack? The possibility of birds attacking engines on both sides is highly unlikely (though not impossible). 

That improbability plus the timing — on ascent just a few minutes after take-off — suggests to me something else may have brought down the plane. An altitude-triggered device in each engine would have led to the same result. 

I'm not sure what altitude they were at (one report says 3200 feet), but it seems after three minutes in the air they'd be higher than most birds, including migratory birds. This Wikipedia entry says only 8% of "bird strikes" are above 3000 feet. 

Furthermore, the Branta canadensis is usually farther south in January anyway.

If the airport had been somewhere besides the big terror targets — NYC's Kennedy and LaGuardia, LAX, Chicago O'Hare, London's Gatwick and Heathrow, Paris, or Rome's Fiuimicino — I'd be less suspicious that terror was involved.

If this crash was the result of something other than a bird attack, just what is served by the authorities misleading the public? Maybe the have a good reason? Maybe they want the terrorists to believe their efforts to bring down planes are all for naught (though this deception may make them try harder to make sure the next downing is clearly terror). 

Frankly, I thought much the same thing after American Airlines flight #587 went down over Queens, killing 265 people including five on the ground. That was blamed on a co-pilot's overuse of the rudder. I don't fly planes, so I don't know how plausible that is, but I do know that there were conflict reports from witnesses as to what they saw as the plane went down. That plane, leaving ultimate target New York City, just weeks after plane service was again opened up following 9/11, just seemed too coincidental.

Ah, but the investigations are now just beginning. The WaPo story linked at the top says the engines were missing from the plane wreckage. Maybe the Canadian geese story will change. Who knows. 

I certainly don't know if I really believe any of this conspiracy stuff. But you're welcome to. I'm a very creative person, so drop me an email and I'll send you more crazy ideas to support your theory.