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For anyone interested in TWA800 research on Free Republic:

From the Downside Legacy concerning TWA800:

Introduction on the second link (research as of 2000):

This is a TWA800 Research project that had been conducted via email with an anonymous Freeper Lurker/Source. Freeper debate on the hypothesis is color coded at the bottom.

At this point, the consensus of research is that the TWA800 was brought down by at least 2 RAM missiles and gunfire, that they were fired probably by two separate foreign surface vessels in a NATO exercise and that their firing was probably provoked by a target drone.

The RAM missiles wouldn't impact leaving rocket fuel everywhere but rather would uncoil outside like super high speed barbed wire, ripping and shredding and eventually precipitating an explosion. Not only that, it would be the logical selection for an easy target close to a populated area. So far the wreckage information, the maps, the radar … all are fitting this hypothesis extremely well!