WAS it an accident—or was there more to it? It’s the question people
always ask when a plane crashes. Yet never before has it been asked with quite
such urgency. And never has there been quite such a pressing need for reliable
information free of spin or presumption.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ went to press, the established facts about Flight
587’s fall from the skies over New York were not quite of that calibre. It was
looking pretty certain that the tail and at least one engine fell off before
impact. Yet surprisingly, the cockpit voice recorder suggested the pilot…
