[woollyone]

"First Strike" suggests that the Navy shot two missles, but not in an attempt to bring down 800. Rather, the missles were intended to down a twin engine plane w/o a transponder active, which had been trailed by a p3 Orion due to the suspicious nature of the small plane. When the twin engine began to abruptly close toward flight 800, the navy acted by trying to bring it down. The first missle hit the 47, taking out the #3 engine, forward patrs of the right wing and flew throught eh cabin at row 23, exiting the ceiling of the cabin...and the secong one engaged the twin engine at the precise moment it intercepted the 47, underneath the nose of the 47, tearing the nose of the fuselage off. It is suggested that the twin engine plane was loaded with explosives for just such a mid-flight intercept with a jumbo jet and that investigations showed the desire by moos to procure a small plane for such duty.

FWIW, I have asked a few pilots about this theory and if such twin engine prop planes could intercpt a 47 at 13,000 feet during the 47's climbout and every one of them said yes definitely. Never talked to a pilot who believed the gov't theory...not one.

[MoodyBlu]

What kind of twin engine aircraft, a corporate jet? And the air traffic control folks in New York and/or Boston would know nothing about a P3 running around tailing a primary target? Sorry bobo, no go. I am an air traffic controller and this is one of the whackier theories I've read.

MoodyBlu