Posted on 08/15/2022 10:19:39 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
In the past few weeks, I have received numerous inquiries about ten-year Navy veteran William Henry Teele III. After years of quietly providing information to me and other investigators into the July 1996 destruction of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island, Teele has gone public and is naming names.
I shared some of Teele’s information in my 2016 book, TWA 800: The Crash, The Cover-Up, The Conspiracy. Teele did not claim to be on the ship that fired the missile. He was on the USS Carr, a guided missile frigate that was one of the “combatants” in the battle group that destroyed the unfortunate 747 and killed the 230 souls on board. Everything that I could verify about Teele’s account back then checked out.
In the six years since, Teele has reached out to many of his fellow sailors and fleshed out his account. Although he has appeared on several podcasts in recent weeks, his uninterrupted narrative on the Duke Report is the most compelling. I would welcome those with relevant experience to contact me through my website, cashill.com, to offer your assessment of Teele’s account or to provide additional information. My research suggests Teele is the real deal but I remain open, as all journalists should, to contrary information.
In the way of background, Teele joined the Navy in 1994. In 1996, according to his Navy transcript, he was serving as a “seaman apprentice” receiving advanced training in “specialized Navy occupations.” Teele’s training went well enough that in 1998 he was made an “operations specialist,” one who, “operates radar and associated equipment; identifies and maintains a display (plot) of the movement of ships, aircraft, missiles, and natural objects detected by observing a radar.” In 1999, he was made an instructor...
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1. A terrorist looking to shoot down a civilian aircraft flying eastbound out of JFK International Airport never would have been positioned so far east where the flight would normally be flying at an altitude of 30,000+ feet.
2. From what I’ve seen, TWA Flight 800 was flying far below its normal altitude at that point in its flight that night — to make way for a northbound flight into Providence, Rhode Island that was running behind schedule. A terrorist wouldn’t have known this in advance when plotting an attack using a surface-to-air missile.
Since I spent a good portion of my life in the NAV, I agree with everything you posted.
Not sure what the real story is but what we are being told officially is not it.
So it’s not as if the U.S. Navy shooting down a passenger jet is an outlandish possibility.
I remember that—Salinger learned the hard way what happens to people who get in the way of the “official narrative”.
It is the suppression of free inquiry that was the evil then—and is the evil now.
See my (new) tagline.
I wish I could recall the name of the author who wrote a “novel” about that event because in it, some of the characters say “missile was fired hitting the plane.”
Yeah, I preferred to believe him and his characters.
‘Face
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- horrible accident involving a naval vessel from a NATO ally.
If nothing else, this would add a degree of diplomatic complexity that would explain the need for a government cover-up.
What we were missing then—and still are missing—is open public discussion—including permitting naval personnel in the area to talk about what they knew and what they saw.
I don’t know what is possible on a navy ship if Murphy’s Law kicks in—but in my long life I have learned that “impossible” is a word you never want to use.
At that time I was working on a Navy missile program (not Standard). Within a couple of days of the shootdown we heard through the grapevine that the wrong motor section got on the rail somehow and came up to the launcher. It was supposed to be inert but wasn’t. At that time we heard nothing about a towed target, our understanding was that the exercise was to have been electronic only.
The inert motor sections used for exercises have a loopback for the control signals so the fire control people could verify all the right signals made it to the missile and it WOULD HAVE fired if it was real world instead of an exercise. The fire control people would presumably have no indication the wrong motor section was in place until they felt and heard the missile launch, and then it was too late.
The warhead section was inert as it was supposed to be but a direct hit is a direct hit. The Standard is a radar missile so it would most likely hit right between the wings. I don’t doubt the fuel in the center tank was atomized by the impact and exploded.
The missile would have gone through and through the aircraft and its trajectory would have been completely different than that of the plane debris, so it never would have been found among the debris. The compound found on the recovered seats was most likely from the missile motor.
Some BS going on...
Sorry but a Perry class Frigate does not have a AN/SPY-1 radar. I was an instructor at the AEGIS CSEDS R&D site and served on a Perry class frigate. What else about this story is not true?
“You have an electric motor in your automobile fuel tank.”
Wow! Never thought of that!
Is the “conspiracy theory” consensus that it was a missile that hit the plane by accident?
Yes I read that also, great book!!!
“My memory may be faulty”
As I remember, E-3 was obtained after A school which followed boot camp.
An E-2 with 2 years would indicate no A school.
That is why many people are praying for Donald Trump and his family.
And yet the Navy in the last few years has had a number of collisions in open water, running aground, and other accidents that should not have happened.
Here we have a witness stating it was a missile accident (plus reporting at the time of missile trails) versus your memory, i.e. you are not at all a witness. You really sound sure, but you were not there, so I’d suggest turning your surety down a few notches.
I wish Rush would have come clean with a few things before he died.
An empty manpad tube was recovered among the debris.
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