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
“Because that is exactly the explanation they gave back in the day. Maybe not the final, but they pushed and pushed the static electricity one.”
Talking heads gotta talk.
The NTSB report was released 25 years ago. Time for you to stop digging.
“So you do believe it climbed after the explosion?”
I believe the physics.
“It appears to be damn hard to get it to burn when it is in liquid form.”
Physics 101. The liquid doesn’t burn.
I’m not digging anything. This was the most obvious cover up I have ever witnessed in my lifetime. This happened in my twenties I lost all respect for the mainstream media and other institutions. What a chump I was.
Discussion of the restricted air space was in the papers in the days following when possible friendly fire was being discussed before the bomb residue discovery blew off the papers. Go back to the FR discussions at that time.
“I’m not digging anything.”
I was being polite. I could have referred to a part of your anatomy as to where you pulled out that static electricity idea.
“Discussion of the restricted air space was in the papers in the days following when possible friendly fire was being discussed before the bomb residue discovery blew off the papers. Go back to the FR discussions at that time.”
LOL! Lots of BS has been discussed on FR.
I remember discussions about the sun revolving around the earth, flat earth, cold fusion, alien hijackers.
But, your claim is totally unsupported by the facts. The recorded communications have no record of a descent being made or entry into a restricted airspace.
The plane had been at 13,000 as was ASCENDING to 15,000 when it exploded.
See above
For a black program test the sub captain would not have a need to know what went out of his torpedo tube
Probably an accident
The navy had target drones up not knowing that the new sensor would ignore them
You remember the Popular Mechanics article where reporter questioned the investigators power washing the airplane pieces as soon as they were being recovered? That was kind of funny. The whole sham was pathetic
“You remember the Popular Mechanics article where reporter questioned the investigators power washing the airplane pieces as soon as they were being recovered? That was kind of funny. The whole sham was pathetic”
Are you getting that from the same place you pulled static electricity out of?
Nope, but I found this one:
3 Reasons to Doubt the TWA Flight 800 Conspiracy Theory
I suspect at times real operatives can play us Freepers like harps from hell. Therefore my philosophy is to be transparent about what I believe, make no threats, and to keep my symbolic hands where everyone can see them. My opinions might ping a few anxiety meters with some ..err.. more shadowy types but I’m right where they can see me...I’m no threat, just a boomer nearing retirement age mourning over America’s lost soul!
I am getting the impression you don't understand that *THEY* are deliberately trying to make you believe this bullshit to *COVERUP* the fact we were attacked by Iranian agents.
Every government agency is not trustworthy with anything they report on this issue.
They said the Covid 19 shots were safe too.
No it doesn't, and oddly enough, jet fuel is put in tanks in liquid form.
“I am getting the impression you don’t understand that *THEY* are deliberately trying to make you believe this [deleted per JR Guidelines] to *COVERUP* the fact we were attacked by Iranian agents.”
And just how do you know it was Iranian agents?
Never mind. I already know!
Great book by Nelson DeMille - Night Fall.
Your link simply accepts the NTSB report which was *ORDERED* to say what it says by Bill Clinton.
Actually, Clinton wasn't particular on the details. He just ordered the "Authorities" to cover this up. They used their own creativity in how they accomplished it.
Because someone I know who was in a position to know certain things has told me so. How the hell else would I know it was Iranians?
I didn't know who the hell blew the plane up until like 14 years after it happened. I *FOUND OUT* when someone I know who is in a position to know, *TOLD ME*.
For a long time I bought the errant Navy missile theory, and before I learned what really happened, I never cared about this issue at all.
But when I learned of Bill Clinton's role in the coverup, I became incensed. I want that bastard to be exposed for this and other bad deeds.
“Yes, I should have said “Un-Flammable.””
You should not say “Un-Flamable”.
https://www.powerthesaurus.org/unflammable/definitionsadjective
Not capable of catching fire and burning; not flammable
from
incombustible
https://www.powerthesaurus.org/unflammable/definitions
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