We have other global threats to worry about too, like bloggers' conspiracy theories surrounding missing Air France flight 447. Dissident Voice is a surprising voice of reason in explaining: "Speculation about what may have happened centers on lightning causing a massive electrical surge that caused the failure of fly-by-wire flight controls." Others are making a federal case of it. "Could Air France flight 447 have been bombed?" asks Stupid Celebrities Gossip (our #1 source for aviation news). "Reports have been emerging about a bomb threat being called in [for an Air France flight] just five days before Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean." Hmm. (A British Mail Online report says oil slicks in the water make the bombing theory unlikely.) But what about this: "the domain name for flight 447 was registered in September 2007. Coincidence? Maybe," says Atlas Shrugs. "Iranian Kari Bian, who makes movies about Israelis and Palestinians, registered the domain flight447.com." Threat Level reports that Bian calls the connection coincidental: "It's just an accident (that there's a connection)," he said. "I have nothing to do with anything. I feel really bad for that flight." Click Read more
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