Commentary: Conspiracy theories fly after Baltimore bridge collapse. It wasn’t always this way
I vividly remember the gruesome wreckage of the United States’ worst aviation disaster. I was among the first reporters to see the burning remnants of a DC-10 near O’Hare International Airport on May 25, 1979. The crash killed all 271 people on board and two people on the ground.
What I don’t recall are absurd conspiracy theories about why American Airlines Flight 191 to Los Angeles dropped from the sky and exploded after takeoff, incinerating people beyond recognition.
It’s a universe from last week’s Baltimore bridge collapse. As: The cargo ship was the that caused a power loss; the collapse was a false flag to divert us from the police raid of rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Miami home as part of a sex trafficking investigation; and it was Israeli revenge for the U.S. abstaining from a United Nations resolution calling for a Gaza cease-fire.
