Can you summarize for me what he found and how he disproved the bomb-sniffing dog assertion?
Thanks.
I don't have time except to say that he interviewed the man who did the exercise and it was on a different plane.
An independent investigator, Tom Kovach, acquired copies of the training logs for the St. Louis airport police and also spoke to the K-9 training officer involved in the training of the bomb sniffing dogs.
Although the officer did not note down the tail number of the aircraft (Flight 800's is 17119) on which the exercise took place on the specified date, he did carefully note both starting and ending times in his log. The ending time was within 15 minutes of the time that the aircraft that would later become Flight-800 was to take off with a full load of passengers. As I am sure you are aware, it takes quite a bit of time to load the plane with passengers, much less to prepare the plane for the flight... fueling, loading food, water, cleaning, etc. The dog trainer noted that the aircraft used was entirely empty and no other personel were present during the entire training exercise. Ergo, the plane used in the exercise was not tail number 17119 and actually was another plane parked at the same terminal. In addition, the trainer recalled the color of the interior decor... and it was not the same as the decor of 17119.
"According to the “block time” reports, which I obtained directly from TransWorld Airlines, the airliner left the terminal about fifteen minutes after termination of the exercise. The problem is that explosive detection exercises are done in unoccupied areas, for a number of reasons. So, if the aircraft was unoccupied at the time of the training exercise, then we are to believe that an entire 747 airliner was “turned around” — refueled, baggage loaded, cabin cleaned, lavatories serviced, pre-flight inspection completed, food and supplies loaded into the galleys, fresh drinking water pumped into the tanks, and hundreds of passengers boarded — all in less than fifteen minutes. Or, we are to believe that, after the completion of all of the above, the captain of the airliner allowed explosives to be placed aboard his flight-ready aircraft. Both are preposterous."