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Here is the alt.disasters.aviation newsgroup FAQ. It includes a section on TWA800 that provides backup for some of my statements in previous posts:

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~philmil/ADA_FAQ/ADA_FAQ.htm

Here is some technical information on the CalTech EDL studies that established how the event occurred without a doubt.

http://www.ntsb.gov/speeches/ve981021.htm

http://www.galcit.caltech.edu/EDL/projects/JetA/background.html

the Misconceptions page is specially good:

http://www.galcit.caltech.edu/EDL/projects/JetA/misconceptions.html

You also need to read the entire docket on the NTSB website, especially the structures report where they address a possibility of a meteorite by demonstrating that (1) the structural breakup began with the fuel tank explosion, and (2) there is no path from outside the skin of the airplane into the tank. No meteorite, no missile, no shell, no fragment. When the people writing the report wrote about a missile, they just said, "see the meteorite bit." It never occurred to them that there would be people with no scientific training writing books, who wouldn't even read the accident report docket. (It takes about a week, and it's clear from Sanders's writing that he hasn't taken the week, or maybe he has too little education to follow the report).

Someone may say, what about a bomb? Even Jailbird Jim knows it can't be a bomb. Basically, high explosives leave a distinctive signature when they do their work. It was no problem seeing where HE had worked on Pan AM 103, and that plane was nearly as fragmented (and more burned) than TWA 800. There's no such signature on the TWA 800 wreckage.

Sanders and his crowd have asserted that the wreckage was disposed of. Actually GWU has it and uses it to train grad students in accident investigation.

http://www.gwu.edu/~aviation/safetyandsecurity/safetyandsecurity.html

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

Thanks for the post.

I was beginning to think I had been redirected to DU for a moment. (No need to let an ugly set of facts destroy such a beautiful theory...)

Wait, wait! I've got it! There were TWO missles! One by the military and one by the terrorists! Each thought the other had done it, so neither fessed up or took credit. Wow! How could this have been missed for so long! Yeah, that's the ticket!

Call the NYT! </sarcasm>