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Or how an ASR-9 can determine a vertical velocity without a height finding component? A primary target won’t show an altitude.

[pfflier]

Usually any TWA 800 post on FR brings out the conspiracy around the corner crowd. Apparently only two of us grasp the fundamental capability of traffic control radar, in this case ASR-9.

Too many respondees to my question either quote "What they saw on you tube", "saw on a TV program" or quote theoretical radar operations.

I don't believe any of them ever saw a mid-air explosion on radar.