[Yo-Yo]

...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.

I'm one of the few around today that was on Free Republic back then and this is precisely what the eyewitnesses described and what we on FR way back then was saying happened.

It was a training accident caused by an errant Navy missile, and was covered up by the Clinton Administration with their Cock-and-Bull story about exploding center fuel tanks.

[dljordan]

” exploding center fuel tanks”

Filled with nitrogen.

[DiogenesLamp]

It was a training accident caused by an errant Navy missile, and was covered up by the Clinton Administration with their Cock-and-Bull story about exploding center fuel tanks.

No it wasn't. It was a missile fired by Iranian mercenaries for the sole purpose of taking revenge against the United States for shooting down Iran Air flight 655.

A wealthy Iranian family hired these men who were former Republican Guard soldiers to shoot down that aircraft.

I know someone who was inside the coverup loop and this is what he has told me. He also told me of some proof to support it, but I cannot mention what sort of proof it is because it makes it too easy to identify my source.

The Iranians did it and *COWARD* Bill Clinton did not want to go to war with Iran, which is exactly what would have happened had they told the truth. Our European "allies" also wanted Iran left alone so as not to disrupt their supplies of oil, and *NOBODY* wanted the commercial air industry destroyed by public fear of getting shot down.

And it was a few months before the election, and the one thing that mattered most to that shit bag Bill Clinton was retaining power.

[Vaquero]

If i wanted a cock and bull story I’d read Hemingway

[Chickensoup]

I’m one of the few around today that was on Free Republic back then and this is precisely what the eyewitnesses described and what we on FR way back then was saying happened.

It was a training accident caused by an errant Navy missile, and was covered up by the Clinton Administration with their Cock-and-Bull story about exploding center fuel tanks.

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I remember those conversations. I had not joined until autumn but I was reading each evening

We had a lot of Aeronautical men here then, Pilots, and engineers, mostly military, some civilians . They took the whole accident apart in different threads IIRC. We could not have long threads back then. It was fascinating and informative.

[Big Giant Head]

I was here too. I remember something like 700 eyewitnesses, and other pilots who were former military pilots describing an ordinance explosion.