That was the story I heard too about AA. At the time of that incident we lived about a mile and a half from the crash site, it truely was a tragic situation.

Funny channel nine story though. Was flying out of TUL where there is a McDonnel Douglas facility, where some military stuff is aparently done. I was in First and asked if channel 9 would be available. The FA said let me ask. She came back and said the pilot would turn on Channel 9 if I could get him a "CBS Sports" hat that I had on. I said ok,
she gave me an address to send it to and channel 9 was on. AS we took off, the plane suddenly seemed to take an evasive sharp turn. Over channel 9 we heard our pilot ask the tower where the two fighters came from. The tower replyed " what fighters" you are the only thing we are seeing. Our pilot said that two fighters were visible in our flight path on take off. My traveling companion and I looked at each other almost on cue, like " Oh my". After the plane leveled off, the FA came back to us and said the pilot wanted to know if we were enjoying channel 9. We snickered at her and then ordered a drink. Upon landing and deplaneing, the pilot, a young guy, looked at us and said, " Interesting flight, huh". I did send both he and the co-pilot a hat. I am sure that it is those situations that tend to leave the channel 9 cockpit selector in the off position.