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Posted on 07/09/2025 4:16:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A Pair of Lawsuits Promise to Expose the Truth Behind the July 1996 Disaster.
On July 17, 1996, TWA 800, a Paris-bound 747, blew up ten miles off Long Island’s south shore, killing all 230 souls on board. In the days leading up to the anniversary, I will share some fresh insights on this tragedy and the much too successful cover-up that followed.
After 25 years investigating the destruction of TWA Flight 800, I have learned to temper my enthusiasms. That said, I continue to take heart when I see signs of life. Perhaps the most promising development in the case is the progression through the courts of Krick v. Raytheon.
Ronald Krick is the father of Oliver Krick, a 25-year-old student flight engineer killed in the crash. Krick has been joined in the suit by relatives of other deceased passengers and crew. The defendants are the Raytheon Company, the Lockheed Martin Corporation, and the United States government.
The Krick suit gained momentum when it absorbed information gleaned from a FOIA suit brought by Tom Stalcup, a no-nonsense physicist who has been pursuing this case since he was a grad student in 1996. To establish his claims Stalcup was granted subpoena power and was able to depose several key witnesses from within the investigation.
Stalcup appeared in the 2001 documentary, Silenced, produced by me and my late partner James Sanders. In 2013 Stalcup and the late Kristina Borjesson, formerly of CBS News, produced the excellent documentary, TWA Flight 800. What follows are extended passages from Krick v. Raytheon.
—On July 17, 1996, a Boeing 747 headed for Paris took off from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport at around 8:20 p.m. Within twelve minutes of takeoff, the plane exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Island, New York. All 230 passengers and crew members perished.
—After the incident, the federal government released a false report contending that the explosion was the result of an electrical fire in the airplane’s center fuel tank.
—Only recently, thanks to the work of physicist, Dr. Thomas Stalcup, through his Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) litigation in Massachusetts federal court, has evidence emerged proving that TWA 800’s explosion was not caused by any defect in the airplane, but instead by an errant United States missile fired at aerial target drones flying nearby.
—The evidence unearthed by Dr. Stalcup establishes that the United States, including its agencies, such as the United States Missile Defense Agency (formerly known as the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization), the United States Department of Defense, and the United States Navy (the “Government Defendants”), acting in concert and working side-by-side with Raytheon Company and Lockheed Martin Corporation (the “Contractor Defendants”) and DOES 1 through 20, inclusive (collectively the “Defendants”) 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.
—Newly discovered evidence also shows that these Defendants engaged in a top-down cover-up to prevent the public from learning the truth about TWA 800. Proof of this cover-up, and of Defendants’ underlying culpability for the crash, was only recently unearthed by Dr. Stalcup after more than a decade of FOIA litigation against the Government Defendants.....SNIP
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An amazing coverup.
Think of the love and perseverance of that father seeking truth about what happened to his son, for almost 30 years
ABOUT DAMNED TIME !!!
CENTER FUEL TANK EXPLOSION MY A$$ !!!
That cia film of FRAUD almost made Me puke when it came out !!!
I remember at the time around a hundred or a few hundred said they saw a missile trail leading to the plane when it exploded.
The same cancer that rots our government to this day existed well before this. I dare say at least back to the 1920’s, if not further.
I’ll never forgive Jim Kalstrom for not exposing the coverup before he passed
Still conjecture... No actual proof is presented. Do they have proof an actual SM-2 missile hit the aircraft, have traced of the missile impact on the aircraft wreckage? No. People saw something arcing through the sky...eye witnesses are the worst.
Proof of testing with live warheads happens pretty much daily.
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.
The government was testing missiles in one of the most commercially dense air spaces?
This is AI BS.
Father?
Bump
I worked with a guy - this was back in ‘97 - and his sister was on the coast of LI and absolutely saw a light going up to the plane, then the explosion.
Not stated in this piece was it was the summer before the re-election of Bill Clinton as President. I recall information the White House situation room was monitoring this top secret missile test. There was evidence of U.S. Navy ships immediately steaming AWAY from the crash location of TWA 800.
James Sanders, now deceased, referred to by Jack Cashill in this piece, had authored a book about the truth of the accidental missile shoot down of TWA 800. I met Sanders in Nashville and talked with him briefly about his book.
I called into a radio talk show in Nashville and brought up this book with the host. He hung up on me on the air, ridiculing my “wild conspiracy theory.”
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is the agency required by federal law to investigate airline crashes. In the case of TWA 800, the FBI seized the investigation AWAY from NTSB and locked down the information and physical evidence.
The CIA created a bogus “animation” of the so-called fuel tank explosion which made no sense. What the hell does the CIA typically have to do with airline crashes? NOTHING !
Look at how many of such “conspiracy theories” about federal government corruption have subsequently proven to be ABSOLUTELY TRUE !
Without re-litigating all of the evidence back then (but I'm afraid we will end up doing so anyway...) there was what was conjectured to be solid rocket motor fuel found on some of the seats recovered from the wreckage site, that was denied by the government as such. Government claimed it was leftover residue from bomb sniffing dog exercises.
When the FAA and the CIA have control of all the evidence, it's hard to disprove their conclusions.
“Proof of testing with live warheads happens pretty much daily.”
Which proves, if shot, the missile could have taken down the plane.
The real question is why nobody in the navy has leaked that they shot a missile that day.
Just like Oklahoma City - a corrupt Clinton coverup.
” exploding center fuel tanks”
Filled with nitrogen.
Oklahoma City was another FBI undercover sting operation that they lost control of. "John Doe Number Two" was most likely McVeigh's handler.
“A Pair of Lawsuits Promise to Expose the Truth Behind the July 1996 Disaster.”
29 years ago. If there was some sort of training accident and a government coverup I doubt there is much evidence left to find.
Ronald Krick
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