My earlier anonymous reply may only have been 50% correct, as I now have read the following, quote; "Belgian TV reported that the plane was carrying diplomatic baggage belonging to the US Ambassador to Belgium, including a car and papers. The US embassy in Brussels refused to comment."

Originally posted by sensfan
I was honestly asking what the conspiracy angle was, as this is a conspiracy board.

Now you've touched upon a very politically sensitive topic for ATS.
There are certain fora on ATS that operate beyond conspiracy flavors.
More so, the members that regularly frequent to these fora, tend to guide discussions toward a more technical/strategic area of discussion rather than an anti-state/conspiracy area.

I'm sure you've noticed that.

Now that there was another 747 crash in Bogota, this makes me think of 3 things right away:
1. Sloppy maintenance. This 747 had a fire in one engine (whicn BTW is part of the emergency procedures)
2. Lack of proper trained crew, which couldn't fly the airplane appropiately.
3. Over weight (??)

All of them fall into the category of a very bad managed company, where things are not taken care of in the right way.

Thanks god the take off was using runway 31 other wise the crash would have been right into the city.