The speculation that Flight 553 was shot down by the CIA is not new, however it hasn’t had as a lot traction through the years as different paranoid notions of the 60s and 70s. Nationwide Transportation Security Board was pilot error (which is confirmed by black field audio), however Chicago-based non-public investigator Sherman Skolnick alleged a conspiracy between the FBI, United, air visitors controllers and the NTSB to convey down the aircraft attributable to alleged Watergate connections of 12 of its passengers.
The presence of Dorothy Hunt on the flight definitely provides a level of intrigue. She had $10,000 in a suitcase, which was paid to key contributors within the Watergate operation. The episode “White Home Plumbers” reveals Dorothy exchanging glances with a suspicious man, suggesting that somebody is perhaps following her (she really believed she was being adopted, and on some degree was in all probability proper). She then takes a seat subsequent to Clark and begins to unload.
On the final second, Clark asks for an off-the-record touch upon what Howard is aware of in regards to the JFK assassination. As Dorothy begins to remark, the aircraft crashes (and this is among the most unsettling depictions of a aircraft crash I’ve ever seen, so kudos to director David Mandel). The implication is that, backed right into a nook, Dorothy knew far an excessive amount of and, not like her husband, was savvy sufficient to leak this info to the press. Within the context of the present, Headey’s ever-intimidating casting makes this buy very simple.