[ExSafecracker]

I spent a few years on board U.S.Navy ships and I can testify that almost NOTHING that happens on board that ship remains secret for very long. That goes triple for when ordinance has been fired and the result of that firing, whether the desired target was hit, missed or the wrong target was hit, every crewman on that ship will hear the "scuttlebutt" within hours.
If you can tell me how you get 500 to 700 men to keep this big of a secret for this long, then I will kiss your a## on the Wide World of Sports with Howard Cossell doing the narration!
Raggyheads shot down that plane.

[eeriegeno]

If you can tell me how you get 500 to 700 men to keep this big of a secret for this long

I agree.....

[Alberta's Child]

I agree with everything you've said about keeping something secret on a Navy ship, but let's point out a couple of things here.

1. Everybody agrees that the "center fuel tank explosion" put forth by the NTSB as the cause of the crash was an absolute joke.

2. The NTSB and FBI team was so short of evidence for this "cause" that they had to stage a video to "explain" it.

3. Since we know that #1 and #2 are true, we can be quite certain that there has been a cover-up about the cause of Flight 800's demise at many levels of the U.S. government.

The point I'm making is that you are always going to run into the problem of how to get "500 to 700 men to keep this big of a secret for this long" -- regardless of what is being covered up here.

[Alberta's Child]

Raggyheads shot down that plane.

Out of all the theories about what really happened to Flight 800, that was the one I dismissed first -- for all the reasons I've posted on this thread, including:

1. The location of the crash site so far east of JFK Airport -- anyone intent on shooting down a plane out of JFK would have done so from a point closer to the airport.

2. The fact that not only was Flight 800 flying at or near the outer limits of most surface-to-air missiles, it was flying lower than normal due to unusual circumstances that night -- which is something that a terrorist could not possibly have accounted for.

3. The "dog that didn't bark" angle: the Navy ships in the area south of the crash site that left the scene as if nothing had happened -- a response that is utterly inconsistent with a terrorist shoot-down of a U.S. airliner in the vicinity.