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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Really, I had never heard/read that.
What was the explanation for that?
I suspect a manpad tube is not something you typically find on the ocean floor off Long Island.
Not too many ManPad tubes on Fire Island or the Hamptons.
“Loved the book “Night Fall” by one of my favorite authors Nelson DeMille. A fictional account of the investigation of the downing of TWA 800.”
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Great book. I just read it again. Incredible ending.
Losing a 12 ga shell off the deck is not even close to the shoot down of a civilian jet liner. To cover that up, you have to NOT PUNISH anyone - instead you have to BUY THEIR SILENCE via reward or threat (i.e. promotion or prison for violating secrecy laws). If you punish them, they have no reason not to talk, and the trial would risk facts coming out anyway.
Question - while you were in service, did you ever see anything get covered up, superiors sweep something under the rug, ignore procedure, etc.? Ever or never? Because a couple screw ups can have a cascading impact that makes this a Navy shoot down plausible.
There was also a ‘speedboat’ observed on radar, hightailing it away from the scene. Both incidents went down the rabbit hole. But their evidence is available on the TWA800.com website.
This is all so tiresome. I do believe TWA800 was taken down by a missile, but am 100 percent convinced it did NOT come from a U.S. Navy vessel. I served aboard USS NORMANDY, as an officer, not a seaman apprentice like this “whistle-blower” who served on CARR. I hasten to add my service on NORMANDY ended three years before TWA800, but I personally know officers and men who were on board at the time the airliner went down.
There are numerous holes in the whistle-blower’s story, and the biggest to me is the alleged order to destroy the evidence and to invoke a cover-up demanding the silence of every officer and sailor in that group of ships. It is a laughable and ludicrous allegation for anyone with a modicum of understanding of how the Navy, especially the Surface Navy, operated at that time.
The victims of TWA800 deserve justice, but the Navy hypothesis is a dead end, and energy would be better spent exploring more plausible explanations.
You do remember that Bill Clinton was President, right? Coming clean wasn't something he did. Ever. About anything.
“alleged order to destroy the evidence and to invoke a cover-up demanding the silence of every officer and sailor in that group of ships.”
Time out—you know about the UAP incidents that have now been heavily publicized.
An entire battle fleet was silenced for several years on that one!
I’ve been in aircraft maint for 43 years and don’t believe it, either.
Can't say I'm surprised that he/she hasn't replied.
I could never convince my that there was a bias in the media against the truth that didn't serve their agenda. He was completely taken by Tom Brokaw, the Greatest Generation huckster. Brokaw was (and is) a self serving political hack, and abuser of women.
“instantaneous decompression” wouldn’t necessarily bring down an airliner. I remember an Hawaiian flight that lost it’s entire roof due to metal fatigue and was able to lend safely with the loss of a stewardess.
Stringers have a ceiling of about 15,000ft. The normal flight of these big boys are 20,000
Where would these terrorists be where the authorities couldn’t detect and seize them?
Lastly stringers have IR guidance which would key on one of the four engine pods. Short of total wing failure, the pilots should be able to get back safely on the remaining three.
bump
I am not sure whether it was enemy fire or friendly fire, but I know the explanation of some little thing blowing the plane to smithereens was just too pat.
“Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite were the most truthful of all.”
LOL!
Thank you for your service.
“no flights cancelled enmasse”
To me that was the smoking gun—if there was a true danger to the fuel tank they would have immediately grounded all similar aircraft.
I always say “ignore what they say, watch what they do”.
I don’t know what happened, but if it did happen the way the NTSB came up with, they should’ve had a demonstration video showing that.
Put fuel into an isolated center tank to the approximate level of TWA 800’s. Try to do this at the estimated temperature (or possibly known temperature from the FDR) Connect normal power to the fuel pumps and normal power to the fuel quantity probes in the tank and make sure that’s stable. Then, deliberately short 115V 400Hz power to the fuel quantity probe(s) and see what happens.
It’s their theory that this caused the explosion, and that theory can be tested.
Yeah. Including me, and I’m an agnostic.
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