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Regardless of who eventually gets whatever blame may result, I want to know the truth about TWA Flight 800. I don't believe the official story.

Out of all the 747s flying all these years, one suddenly blows up from an endemic wiring problem? What are the odds of that??? From what I've heard, the wiring design Boeing used is not unique to the 747, so how is it that only this one airplane has had the fuel tank exploding problem??? The official story is a nice story, but how about the truth this time?

Let's be honest. Mechanical things---especially sophisticated mechanical things with fuel and electricity---break all the time for no apparent reason. Just read, sometime, about all the incredible things (truly unbelievable) that go wrong in combat. No, this wasn't combat, but every once in a while things just break and people can't accept that Sh*t happens, so they look for "answers."

I don't close the door on any real evidence---bonmb, missile, whatever. But neither do I (as many Freepers do) believe it "HAD TO BE" a bomb or a missle. Sh*t happens, andsometimes a lot of people die when it does.

When you get into virtually any of the "conspiracy theories" about anything---JFK, OK City---it comes down to the fact that people don't want to accept that one or two individuals are capable of truly heinous acts without "outside support." Again, for the third time, if there is solid evidence, I have no problem with that. But to constantly accuse the FBI of "covering up" gets old, especially when two different administrations (one of which would have EVERYTHING to gain by revealing the "cover up") continue to stand by the report.

I am an Aircraft Mechanic, I spent 2 years on C-5A and C-5B Aircraft. 4 years on f-15,f-16, a-10, F-4s, f-5, t-38s, c-141, c-130, then 4 1/2 years with American Airlines as a mech on MD-80, 727 and DC-9s. My job included the Fuel Scrubbing system, which is a nitrogen system that purges oxygen from the fuel tanks on C-5s. 747's do not carry this type of fire supression, but I have been in many fuel cells. There are no wire bundles inside a fuel cell, outside there are hundreds of wires.

When a fuel cell is emptied it is purged, all remaining air is vacuumed out with the fuel vapors. The vapors if there were any remaining could not produce a flash strong enough to blow the tank, the tank is in a low pressure state, it technically would implode. (not enough low pressure to do it though) Have you ever opened your gas tank and heard the sucking sound? same effect...

Flight 800 was hit by a missle from the port side near the mid section, after impact which split the AC in half the fuse ignited the charge, a few milisecs after penetrating.