Originally Posted by Chris

Or, possibly, because the "theory" is actually just an extrapolation based on one or two facts which ignores a vast number of problems, the most obvious being that bringing down an airliner in order to kill off four of the passengers is using an almighty sledgehammer to crack a nut. There are far easier ways to do it. And in any case the perpetrator of this crime screwed up. In this scenario the perp either needs all the patent owners out the way, in which case he managed to expend an awful lot of effort in the act of not killing all of term, or else the perp is the remaining patent owner, in which case he has made himself prime suspect in an act of mass murder.

Ultimately, of course, the explanation for this also has to account for the behaviour of the plane in the hours before it crashed. This was not a straightforward destruction of an aircraft, as would be the aim of someone who wanted to simply do away with one or more of the passengers.

Historically, the practice of senior executives not sharing planes is not unheard of but would be considered unnecessarily paranoid these days. The world doesn't fly on DC-10s and Comets any more and Pan-Arab nutters can't hijack them as easily. I don't think your observation about Dunlop adds any light to the present mystery.

As for Anonymous, well if they stopped being so anonymous we might be able to judge whether any of them is qualified in any sphere that would add value to their speculation. However I don't expect that to happen any time soon.

Originally Posted by Sirius

A few of them are good at what they do but the majority are hangers on who are nothing more than script kiddies