Yeah, that's the way it might've gone down...but it probably didn't.
Other scenarios are far more likely than a USN shoot-down and cover-up.
Like a spontanious center fuel tank explosion?
If the navy didn't shoot the missile, they know who did. They were all over that area that night.
The whole thing is bizarre. 747s don't just explode. The Navy isn't butterfingers about missiles. Hundreds of witnesses didn't hallucinate. The CIA doesn't investigate plane crashes.
If it was a movie script it wouldn't be accepted. The whole thing is ridiculous.
And I have no idea what really happened. But I believe the Navy does.