If the downing of TWA 800 had been properly investigated, September 11 may have been prevented.
Can't get there in my thinking. What does the Navy shooting down a civilian jet got to do with terrorism? The solid rocket fuel most likely came from a radar guided missile (center of mass shot) not a heat seeker (engine shot). Terrorists would have used a shoulder launched unit (a man-pad) which are heat seekers. Besides, I think Slick Willie wanted to be a war president and would love to have had a target other than himself to focus on.
Certainly there are too many unanswered questions regardinfg this. The presensence of a Navy P-3 aircraft and a Coast Guard C-130 aircraft. If one were to read the 2 US News and World Reports on this incident, they would find two completely different accounts of the story. Jim Kalstrom, is person that headed the FBI office and later retired to host a law enforcement show constantly swore that it was an malfunction with TWA 800.
The Navy wasn't shooting at 800, they were shooting at a smaller light aircraft that was believed to be carying explosives, a plane-bomb if you will. 800 was unintended.
It was fired off-shore from a private boat.