While browsing Yahoo's news links I decided to check out a link for Airbus Industrie. Would you believe they didn't have a single press release on the incident? Seems like Boeing had one out pretty quickly following the 9-11 happenings. And when McDonnell-Douglas was on their own, they never...
Unless the engine had an uncontained failure or when it fell off it took a lot of the wing with it, why would it cause the plane to go down?
I thought one of the criteria for getting an airliner certificated was that it had to be able to maintain flight (albeit slow and crippled) unless it's...