“Shot down by Iranian mercenaries in retaliation for the shoot down of Iran Air Flight 655 by the USS Vincennes.”
Or it was accidentally shot down by the US Navy. My husband’s military friends tend to agree that it was a US missile that did this.
Sure. Do you really believe a US Navy ship with 300 people could keep that secret? Your husband’s ‘military friends’ are morons.
I don't know if the US made the missile that shot it down, but I do know it was former Republican Guard members turned mercenary who were hired by wealthy Iranian family members of the Iran Air 655 incident. They wanted revenge, and these former Republican guard soldiers gave it to them.
Marine surface radar shows a lone unaccounted for boat speeding away from the crash site while all the other boats in the area were rushing towards the crash site.
-PJ
As someone who has stood thousands of hours of CIC watches on Aegis cruisers and destroyers, and spent a 30 year career in the Surface Navy, I recommend you ignore anything your husband's "military friends" say about such things. 800 truthers are right up there with 9/11 truthers.
Or Clinton had it shot down and had his people put a rumor out around the swamp that it was a “friendly fire” incident.
Someone here in weapons development made a similar argument. He didn’t claim any special knowledge of TWA 800 per se, but he made a case for how it could have been shot down without a bunch of sailors telling their friends.
A sub launched missile he had been working on went dark and he never knew how it turned out. The missile was programmed to hunt for the center mass of its target.
His theory was that a missile like that was being tested out on the Sound and it acquired the airliner instead of its drone.
He said that Electric Boat keeps a sub available for tests and it can run with an extremely small crew. As in just the very few people involved in a dark program. Easy to keep the story contained.