Silenced: Flight 800 and the Subversion of Justice, Part 1 [10th Anniv. Warm-up]

WND ^ | June 4, 2001 | Jack Cashill

[canuck_conservative]

Editor's note: On the evening of July 17, 1996, at 8:19 p.m., TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747, took off from Kennedy Airport, bound for Paris. At 8:31 p.m., over 730 people watched Flight 800 explode, killing all 230 of the people aboard.

Not long afterwards, millions of Americans watched their televisions in fascinated horror as search and rescue crews looked for survivors among the flaming debris. Only dead bodies were recovered.

Flight 800 is mostly an ugly memory for people these days. The U.S. government issued an explanation that a fuel tank had somehow exploded. Yet, they flatly denied any evidence existed of foul play, including the possibility that Flight 800 had been blown out of the air by a missile.

All but a few journalists accepted the government's version of events. Few bothered to investigate the numerous eyewitnesses, the radar records and the physical evidence that all suggested a strikingly different explanation of Flight 800's untimely demise. And those few who did question the government's version were made to look like fools or, worse, thrown in jail and prosecuted as criminals for meddling in an official investigation.

What really happened to Flight 800? ....

[U S Army EOD]

As far as explosives go and investigations of explosives, yes I am quite superior to you.

[U S Army EOD]

Really, why would there be missile "fuel"?

[GarySpFc]

The evidence points to an accident. The conjecture points to a cover-up. Isn't that the case with all popular conspiracy theories?

Wrong! The engineer in charge of TWA's 747 maintenance was so concerned about the cover up he was the one who allowed Sanders to take scrapings of the fuel residue. Furthermore, aeronautical engineers I have talked to STRONGLY disagree with the government's conclusion.

[U S Army EOD]

Yes it is very difficult to argue against people's immagination.

[Tanniker Smith]

You're never going to convince the tin foil hatters that TWA800 was anything other than an accident.

They don't want to believe that there could exist some kind of conspiracy and nothing will ever convince them otherwise.

No matter how many facts can prove the missile theory it will never be enough.

[U S Army EOD]

What fuel? Why didn't it burn up in the fire?

[U S Army EOD]

Anybody figured out why the NG helicopter that was flying under the 747 never saw any evidense at all of a missile launch. If there was one, no way they could have missed it.

[wannabegeek]

Congress should re-open TWA800 and Oklahoma City bombing thorough re-investigation. Jamie Gorelick, Richard Clarke and other corrupt Clinton people should be put to justice.

[GarySpFc]

I likewise was an explosives expert in the army, and so please do not pull any superiority BS on me.

It was RESIDUE on the several rows of the seats was from solid fuel propellant of the type used in missiles. This was verified by two independent laboratories.

[U S Army EOD]

I think I can with out any problem.

[Churchillspirit]

One of the great things about Free Republic....whatever the subject, there are Freepers with expert knowledge.

[True Republican Patriot]

Thats Hogwash! The truth is coming out and Jack and others are doing a great Service to Our Country in pursuing this.
No plane has ever climbed 3000 ft after loosing its entire nose.radar painted it falling after the explosions.

[U S Army EOD]

I still have all ten fingers and both feet.

[GarySpFc]

What fuel? Why didn't it burn up in the fire?

You say you were an explosives expert in the army, and yet don't understand there is always residue left from burns?

[Niteranger68]

Wrong! The engineer in charge of TWA's 747 maintenance was so concerned about the cover up he was the one who allowed Sanders to take scrapings of the fuel residue. Furthermore, aeronautical engineers I have talked to STRONGLY disagree with the government's conclusion.

You can end debate with imaginary friends.

[jaydubya2]

From another thread on FR:

The two National Guard pilots in their nearby helicopter now picked up the streaks high in the sky. Said Capt. Chris Baur: "Almost due south, there was a hard white light, like burning pyrotechnics, in level flight. I was trying to figure out what it was. It was the wrong color for flares. It struck an object coming from the right and made it explode." Maj. Fritz Meyer, a winner of the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service over Vietnam, saw the southbound missile clearest. "It was definitely a rocket motor," says Meyer. Delgado saw TWA Flight 800 "glitter" in the sky and the ascending object move up toward it. He thought at first it was "going to slightly miss" the 747, but it appeared to make "a dramatic correction at the last second." Then Delgado saw a "white puff." "From my vantage point," says Goss, "there was a direct explosion that followed and then after that there was a second explosion that was off to the east a little farther that was much larger." Meyer saw a bright white light also. "What I saw explode was definitely ordnance," he said. "The initiating event was a high velocity explosion, not fuel. It was ordnance." "About two seconds later," claimed Meyer, "lower, I saw one or two yellow explosions, from that the fireball, third. The first two high velocity, the last low-velocity petrochemical explosion." "Then a moment later there was another explosion and the plane broke jaggedly in the sky," says Lisa Perry. "The nose is continuing to go forward; the left wing is gliding off in its own direction, drifting in an arc gracefully down; the right wing and passenger window are doing the same in their direction out to the right; and the tail with its fireball leaps up and then promptly into the water below. The sounds were a huge BOOM! – then another BOOM!"

[U S Army EOD]

It painted parts of it falling. The aircraft was already in a nose up attitude with a lot of power on. When the front section of the aircraft broke off, the remaining section would have been tail heavy, lighter and still had power on. No problem climbing an additional 3000 feet. Which brings up the question on how they knew it climbed 3000 feet. Radar immage would be a good guess.

Although it is not a good example, remember when the shuttle blew up? The boosters continued to climb and fly around.

[Dazedcat]

Now anyone who originally held this conviction of a missle strike and government coverup was labeled as a "tin foil hat" type or worse (shudder) a wingnut. People right here on FR said as much.

Now it's a Clinton administration obstruction and obvious coverup to a terrorist attack? Yes. Yes it was.

It's a pity it's taken ten years to reach that conclusion; and also a pity its' taken pure partisanship to admit to this.

[GarySpFc]

You can end debate with imaginary friends.

I never claimed to know the engineer in charge of TWA's 747 maintaince. However, James Sanders and others did. The engineer was later arrested by the FBI for allowing Sanders to obtain the residue.

[U S Army EOD]

I've taken a few samples myself in explosive incidents and accidents.