Recent investigators blame the unreliable design of the plane, possible gales that could have blown it straight into the sea, and its decision to fly so low.
Best known for his recent hits "Blame It" (with Jamie Foxx) and "Buy U a Drank," the Grammy-winner from Tallahassee, Fla., is a car aficionado who owns a customization shop, Auto Extremes, in Conyers, Ga.
The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, William C. Dudley, vented this frustration in a recent speech, blaming the concentration of mortgage-making power at a few big banks.
Meanwhile, John Sheehan, a former supreme allied commander of NATO, said his recent statement blaming the presence of openly gay UN peacekeepers for making the massacre possible, was wrong.
Xinjiang has been home to long-running separatist unrest, and several violent attacks have occurred there in recent years, blamed by the authorities on Islamist extremism.
But the central bank stuck to a strong anti-inflationary stand and, as it has done several times in recent months, blamed the Indian government for not doing enough to help the economy.
Shenyang, the Liaoning capital where the incident happened, is almost 3,000km 1,9000 miles) from Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, which has seen sporadic violence in recent years blamed by authorities on Islamist terrorists.
This followed a series of assaults in recent years blamed on Uighur extremists, including the deaths of 33 people at a railway station in south-west China at the hands of knife-wielding assailants in 2014.
Pakistan has seen a violent wave of terrorist attacks in recent years, blamed by the government on Islamic extremists and tribal militants based in the semiautonomous tribal areas straddling the border with Afghanistan.
It is depressing, but not at all unexpected, to see that Republican and Democratic politicians are doing what they do best in the aftermath of the recent blackout: blaming each other.
