Posted on 07/16/2004 8:30:03 PM PDT by Palladin
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 14, 2004
TWA 800: Wreckage Missing, Cases Pending, Eight Years Later
As the eight-year anniversary of the crash approaches, the first piece of wreckage that radar sites recorded separating from the plane is missing. Navy divers located and recovered this piece, but the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) apparently never got it.
The piece was recorded by multiple FAA radar sites hurling off the right side of the plane just as it exploded. Its significance cannot be overstated. It was ejected at apparent supersonic speeds, traveled horizontally 1/2 a mile (perpendicular to TWA 800s flight path), and landed more than 1/4 mile closer to JFK airport than can be explained in the official crash scenario.
See http://Flight800.org/missing.htm for more information.
The NTSB is responsible for determining the probable cause of the crash by analyzing all of the physical evidence. Without this and other crucial pieces of evidence, the NTSB did not conduct a thorough investigation.
Two federal court cases--one on the West-coast in Los Angeles, and another on the East-coast in Springfield, MA--are making headlines this month as they seek tightly held crash documents being withheld by US government agencies.
In Massachusetts, Graeme Sephton, President of the Freedom of Information Advocacy Coalition (FIOAC), is suing the FBI for forensic data and analyses of foreign objects found during victim autopsy examinations. After winning an appeal at Boston Appeals Court last year, Sephton's case will be heard on July 22, 2004 at 2:30 PM at Springfield, MA District Court.
The case has already unearthed a report describing an FBI policy of withholding "suspicious" physical evidence from the NTSB during the investigation. Such a policy may explain how wreckage recovered by the Navy never made it to the NTSB.
On the West-coast, retired commercial pilot Ray Lahr is suing the NTSB to release data used to explain away what were believed to be missile sightings before the crash. According to the NTSB, the witnesses were actually watching Flight 800 climb sharply, after it exploded. Lahr's case will be heard August 2, 2004 at 10 AM at the Los Angeles Federal Court House.
TWA Flight 800 exploded and crashed off the coast of Long Island, NY on July 17, 1996. Witnesses reported seeing a streak of light rise from the ocean and collide with Flight 800 before the crash. Federal investigators dismissed the witness accounts due to an alleged absence of corroborating physical evidence, settling instead upon an electrical short circuit inside a fuel tank.
Contacts Tom Stalcup, FIRO Chairman, for general TWA Flight 800 information. E. Falmouth, MA www.Flight800.org 774-392-0856
Graeme Sephton, FOIAC President, for information on FOIA litigation. www.FOIAC.org 413-367-2253
Bush hasn't exactly been uncovering all Clinton crimes or malfeasance. He didn't even look into who took all the "W's" off the computer keyboards.
But if he had been looking into such things, I doubt he would have said anything about TWA 800. See TWA 800 "It wasn't terrorists. It couldn't have been." It was a military accident, and even Reagan would have kept it secret.
ML/NJ
krunky, I read it and passed the link along to two of my daughters who will be flying out of LAX on a trip home next month.
What a chilling tale! So, the Al Quaeda agents are preparing "in flight" bombs, to be assembled in the forward rest room, next to the cockpit, and NOTADAMNTHINGISBEIBGDONEABOUTIT!!!!!
Excuse my shouting, but we had better start racial-profiling of men with Middle-Eastern looks, language, and passports, before it's too late.
They should torture him until he tells what he knows about it!
I have no faith in the NTSB.
Nor do the families of the 16 students and 5 chaperones from my little town in PA. who were killed instantly in this terrorist act.
And whatever happened to the investigation of the EgyptAir crash out of New York? The Egyptian government tried to deny that one of their pilots would have intentionally crashed the plane but after 9-11 I believe that anything is possible. There were a lot of American's on board heading to Egypt.
Thanks, but as often as I check FR, I had not seen it.
<< Excuse my shouting, but we had better start racial-profiling of men with Middle-Eastern looks, language, and passports, before it's too late. >>
It IS too late.
Throughout the once and supposedly civilized world even those who man the FRont lines -- and whose efforts actions and activities would, despite our own worst motives and those of our erstwhile "leaders," keep us FRee -- are locked up.
Eh, shaggs?
And that America's once-Sovereign Borders are crossed by a net ten thousand non-racially-profiled criminal-alien invaders every day? And;
That the purported guardian of our nation's [And therefore of the world's] "homeland security," can stand in front of us collecting his dough for covering his arse by upfront "warning" us we will be attacked but refusing to attack the enemy soldiers who are quite overtly preparing in plain sight of us all? And;
That the Kling Tong appointed morbidly self-loathing and hesperophobically-racist moron in charge of our nation's airports' pat-down-feel-up-and-filch "security" blobs of protein has mandated that an airline that searches and/or detains more than two "Middle-Eastern males" per flight can be fined out of business and its employees imprisoned -- and has, post September 11 2001, arbitrarily so fined, for Millions of Dollars, a number of America's major air-carriers?
Tells every one of us -- but he who will not see [And there are none so blind] -- that those charged with our protection also know it is too late.
And that those so charged and so entrusted either lack the balls to domestically defend us -- and/or are with and therefore of the enemy.
Blessings -- Brian
BUMPping
Good post. You have a way with words.
FOX had several stories on today about failures and flaws in the Federal Air Marshal program.
Scary stuff!
Just as the FALN and their victims.
<< Scary stuff. >>
That tells every one of us -- but he who will not see [And there are none so blind -- we call them "DemocRATS"] -- that those charged with our protection also know it is too late.
A scary bit of a rant there, Brian...but I'm not disagreeing either.
If it'll get their attention, "call a spade an effin' shovel," my Grandma woulda said.
Blessings -- B A
I see that you are both loud - and proud.
Definitely my kind of gal.
The Egyptian suicide mission in a post-9/11 reality would be Baghdad-Bob laughable had it not been another in a serial cover-up of terrorism by the Leaders of the Free World, courtesy of the Sink Emperor and his Chappa-Squaw.
Also add TWA800, taken out before the eyes of hundreds of witnesses by a missile on the anniversary of Saddam's Iraq coup, July 17th.
Add OKC, via Arab accomplices, of all places in OK City, where thousands of Iraq Republican Guards were brought in by Clinton post Gulf War as 'refugees' otherwise known as 'sleepers'.
See ya!
Yes, I am both loud and proud.
I remember that when our NTSB guys recovered the black box from the Egypt Air "crash" the pilot, prior to there being any hint of trouble, was making his shahadah out loud which is the typical"there is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his messenger" spew. And I have not really heard any more about the investigation from there. I don't know if they have kept the investigation open all this time or perhaps are reexamining the incident. This was, of course, during Bubba's watch so he probably just accepted the Egyptian governments statements and got back the "job" he was encountering.
Yours is the first post I've seen post 9/11 on the subject, quite frankly, and I think it is great to bring it to the forefront.
The evidence is inescapable, and only helps to reinforce the wisdom of the Bush doctrine of pre-emption and offense.
The terrorist cover-ups from 1993-2000 are the worst acts of treason in American history. Thank you, Sink Emperor and Chappa-Squaw.
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