[OldDeckHand]

These "The US Navy shot down TWA 800" stories are so idiotic, so ridiculously stupid and outrageously inane, people who suggest them, peddle them and hint at them need to be ridiculed with unbridled passion.

To launch a missile from a US Navy ship requires the EXPLICIT compliance both before and after the fact of literally hundreds of people. HUNDREDS - none of whom have come forward, not one - no one, nada, zip, zero.

The government (apparently) can keep that secret, but they can't keep some fraternity hazing pictures secret from Abu Grahib, or a bank monitoring program in Switzerland, or the communications between ambassadors and Secretaries of State.

The stupidity and gullibility of some of our citizens is remarkable, even breathtaking.

I'm sure all the people who witnessed this directly or MUSt have known about the missing ordinance either on the ship, on the bridge, in the weapon's stores, in the ordinance supply ships, or in the logistics and procurement offices must all be buried next to the space aliens from Roswell, NM.

[patriotgal1787]

Evening Old Deck Hand,

thought you might like to watch this:

http://raylahr.entryhost.com/Videos/web/MajorFredMeyer.html

[microgood]

These "The US Navy shot down TWA 800" stories are so idiotic, so ridiculously stupid and outrageously inane, people who suggest them, peddle them and hint at them need to be ridiculed with unbridled passion.

I agree that the Navy did not shoot it down.

[buccaneer81]

SOMEBODY shot down TWA 800. Only a sheep would believe the “center fuel tank explosion” lie.

[MindBender26]

Give up. Trying to convince these conspiracy wackos is like trying to teach a pig to dance:

1: You can’t win
2: It’s just a waste of time
3: It only frustrates the pig

I know who really did it. It was Colonel, I mean Admiral Mustard with the lead pipe in the Conservatory.

[Strategerist]

The nutters all magically and inexplicably switched from “The Navy shot it down” after 9/11 to “terrorists shot it down.”

[newzjunkey]

The US Navy story is essentially preposterous. However, the official story has always left me skeptical.

[SkyDancer]

Not only that but why hasn't someone come forward to give their story to some supermarket tabloid for a bunch of money??? You would think that someone in all the Navy would anonymously give the story out. So far nothing.

The NTSB had come out and said it was a fuel leak that was ignited by the heat of the engines that caused the explosion. The report stated that a stream of fuel was ignited far back of the plane and raced up to blow the tanks. That made it look like a missile was coming up from the rear.

Finally, when has the Navy ever conducted missile firings off Long Island??? Is there a test range set up below the flight path of planes flying to Europe from JFK???

[Barnacle]

To launch a missile from a US Navy ship requires the EXPLICIT compliance both before and after the fact of literally hundreds of people. HUNDREDS - none of whom have come forward, not one - no one, nada, zip, zero.

10-4 on that. I think it was an SAM acquired by Bin Laden from the US to fight the Soviets. A precursor to 9-11.

[a6intruder]

"Michael Rivero...white courtesy phone."

This former Freeper was banned, partly due to his conspiracy theories regarding TWA 800. If you want the details, you can go to his website...Whatreallyhappened.com.

Please don tinfoil hat before reading.