For the record, I've got 15 years experience flying military fighters, I've been trained in accident investigations, I've witnessed numerous missile tests, been involved in several ordinance tests, been fired on by SAMs, am a certified flight engineer and a commercial pilot.
"How much experience do you have with shoot downs, aircraft mishaps, military ordinance tests, accident investigations or missiles"
I thought I was flushing out a selfrightous pilot. You have 15 years, and I have over 25. Just call me Colonel sonny. You are not the only one with any experience in these matters. I have also talked with s top engineer from Boeing on this subject who agrees with me that the fuel sensor could not have been the issue. As for the C-130 and the P-3 being in the area that means nothing to me as that is a busy area for air traffic.
Now back to my question. Do you have anything of substance to convince me to change my opinion?
I want to ask you a serious question about your assertions. You said twice "smokeless". The plane went down shortly after dark. The smoke trail would have cleared well before dawn when someone would have been able to see it clearly, correct? With the explosion as big as it was, and the debris field covering as large an area as it was, is it possible that they mistook an upwards smoke trail for a debris trail downwards?
I'm NOT a pilot, NOT an investigator and have NO experience with these things. But, I am a logical person, and when you have three interviews within 2 hours of the plane going down from 15 miles away from each other and three different people looking at it from three different angles all say they saw something going up and then an explosion and then all three of them recant their television interviews within a few days after spending time with the FBI, doesn't something strike YOU as suspicious??
Paul