Posted on 07/09/2025 4:16:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A Pair of Lawsuits Promise to Expose the Truth Behind the July 1996 Disaster.
On July 17, 1996, TWA 800, a Paris-bound 747, blew up ten miles off Long Island’s south shore, killing all 230 souls on board. In the days leading up to the anniversary, I will share some fresh insights on this tragedy and the much too successful cover-up that followed.
After 25 years investigating the destruction of TWA Flight 800, I have learned to temper my enthusiasms. That said, I continue to take heart when I see signs of life. Perhaps the most promising development in the case is the progression through the courts of Krick v. Raytheon.
Ronald Krick is the father of Oliver Krick, a 25-year-old student flight engineer killed in the crash. Krick has been joined in the suit by relatives of other deceased passengers and crew. The defendants are the Raytheon Company, the Lockheed Martin Corporation, and the United States government.
The Krick suit gained momentum when it absorbed information gleaned from a FOIA suit brought by Tom Stalcup, a no-nonsense physicist who has been pursuing this case since he was a grad student in 1996. To establish his claims Stalcup was granted subpoena power and was able to depose several key witnesses from within the investigation.
Stalcup appeared in the 2001 documentary, Silenced, produced by me and my late partner James Sanders. In 2013 Stalcup and the late Kristina Borjesson, formerly of CBS News, produced the excellent documentary, TWA Flight 800. What follows are extended passages from Krick v. Raytheon.
—On July 17, 1996, a Boeing 747 headed for Paris took off from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport at around 8:20 p.m. Within twelve minutes of takeoff, the plane exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Island, New York. All 230 passengers and crew members perished.
—After the incident, the federal government released a false report contending that the explosion was the result of an electrical fire in the airplane’s center fuel tank.
—Only recently, thanks to the work of physicist, Dr. Thomas Stalcup, through his Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) litigation in Massachusetts federal court, has evidence emerged proving that TWA 800’s explosion was not caused by any defect in the airplane, but instead by an errant United States missile fired at aerial target drones flying nearby.
—The evidence unearthed by Dr. Stalcup establishes that the United States, including its agencies, such as the United States Missile Defense Agency (formerly known as the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization), the United States Department of Defense, and the United States Navy (the “Government Defendants”), acting in concert and working side-by-side with Raytheon Company and Lockheed Martin Corporation (the “Contractor Defendants”) and DOES 1 through 20, inclusive (collectively the “Defendants”) were testing the Aegis Weapons System and firing SM-2 missiles with live warheads from warship(s) at aerial missile targets off the coast of New York in close proximity to commercial airline flight paths. One such missile struck TWA flight 800, causing it to break apart and crash into the Atlantic Ocean, killing everyone aboard.
—Newly discovered evidence also shows that these Defendants engaged in a top-down cover-up to prevent the public from learning the truth about TWA 800. Proof of this cover-up, and of Defendants’ underlying culpability for the crash, was only recently unearthed by Dr. Stalcup after more than a decade of FOIA litigation against the Government Defendants.....SNIP
I’ve always thought that Pierre Salinger was on to something.
Commercial aircraft back then did not inert fuel tanks with nitrogen. (Military aircraft did.)
TWA 800 was used as justification to mandate nitrogen inerting of fuel tanks on all commercial airliners today.
They interrupted my TV show when it happened and ran a feed of the radar track coming up from the ground and hitting TWA800. They only ran the feed once, I watched as did others and hundreds watched it happen live from NJ and NY
The way the witnesses were treated was enough to tell us that it was a cover-up.
I believe that naval vessels were off the coast of Maryland doing training. A new RIM-156A during homing phase locked on to the TWA jet rather than the target. RIM-156A naval missiles have a long range and were in testing at the time. I don’t believe crew were adequately trained for OTH target discernment.
It’s like having a visitors center beyond a firing range, in line with the targets with no containment berm.
Bookmark for later.
Similar stories were told by several people until suppressed
"evidence emerged proving that TWA 800’s explosion was not caused by any defect in the airplane, but instead by an errant United States missile fired at aerial target drones flying nearby"TWA 800 was shot down.
Just a few months before Clinton's re-election...and I still believe it was NOT a "snafu" as BJ would always say.
OKC building housed many Clinton-era documents that were destroyed with the help of the infamous "JohnDoe"
This is pretty much wrong. Live warhead testing is infrequent and the deconfliction procedures are onerous. Testing near heavily used flight paths are avoided, and when absolutely necessary flights are shut down.
other version was terrorism. Target was supposed to be El Al 747 which was took off just (4 minutes prior) before TWA 800. Used stinger MANPAD from boat
And we don’t fly military helicopters into the flight path of commercial airliners either.........
And you just wasted your time with this great summation. There are some here who actually believe government can do absolutely no wrong and would never ever lie to the people.
Just for fun.....I asked AI
Google AI informed me (err “corrected” me)
1) TWA 800 was NOT shot down
2) Anthony Fauci DID NOT fund the COVID-19 virus
See? It’s all settled now. AI hath told us.
Question not, peasants. Now get back to work.
Watch CNN / MSNBC / CBS for “truth”. That is all.
Dad said he was boating in Long Island Sound and when the accident occurred, the VHF radio started to talk about seeing something in the sky. TWA was caused by a missile, who did it belong to is anyone’s guess.
Yes, that too. We just don’t have enough information or know the veracity of the information we do have. The government has the radar tracks to know what happened or didn’t. I can see Hadji shooting down the wrong plane.
“I remember at the time around a hundred or a few hundred said they saw a missile trail leading to the plane when it exploded.”
And I remember watching Peter Jennings interview some witnesses on the ground — his network had brokekn in live. Two of the witnesses said they had seen “flares” go up. So I’m thinking, it was a missile, it was a missile; a puzzled look camoe over Jennings face and he moved away from the topic. The amazement on my part was how instinctively Jennings quickly moved away from the topic. He just dropped it.
The Navy radar data that was finally released showed an object heading directly at TWA 800.
Kind of makes you wonder who was on it.
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