There are a handful of posters who just can't help but defend completely this incident, and the Atlas incident before it. It is the same group defending the same utter lack of airmanship, which makes me ponder two ideas: either they are equally inept and are being defensive, or they perceive the comments by others as an attack on the US as a whole and are being defensive about that instead. There is a paranoid culture within the US which afflicts a great many, though I hasten to add not all, of its people in that any criticism of anything which happens to be American is taken as an attack on everything American, and so any kind of criticism is tantamount to a terror attack. I wonder if this bunker mentality is what is behind this defence of the indefensible, given that the very same individuals are only too pleased to condemn anyone from any other country?