Jetliners can’t shatter Equestrian cement.

~ Unknown Source

It was orchestrated by the green bipedal reptilian hairless monkey overlords who secretly control the crown.

~ Unicorn Researcher, Area 16-3

It was just some dumbasses, who were playing musical instruments in the cockpit instead of actually do their jobs and flying the plane safely.

~ The Offical Explanation

Musical instruments, couldn’t they have at least tried to create a plausible explanation for the crash. Do they, the Crown, think that we, the ponies, are truly so naive and clueless that we’d so readily accept such an obvious lie? How insulting!

~ Front Cover Headlines from The Manehattan Times, Issue no.11-9-01