The first radio report of the huge fireball explosion was at 8:31:50 - 38 seconds after the initial event.
Nobody can concoct a palatable "missile(s) shootdown" scenario with those facts.
The conspiracy theorists - and press - jumped to the erroneous conclusion on the night of the disaster that the huge fireball explosion was TWA 800 blowing up at 13,800 feet at 8:31:12.
The report of Faret & Wendell and the ATC tape make it obvious that isn't what happened.
08:31:50 E507 We just saw an explosion out here; stinger bee five oh seven.
You're speculating as much as any one else, -- seeing that the FBI eyewitness accounts are all fouled up. -- No one knows for sure how many eyewitnesses said, or saw, - what. Hundreds are said to have seen the 'streak' in some accounts, and only dozens in others.
Which was at about 7500 feet according to Faret & Wendell (and may well have been thousands of feet lower than that).
Ok, F&W saw a "huge" explosion at 7500', -- check.
The initial event that disabled the 747 took place at about 13,800 feet at about 8:31:12.
Check, there was a 'less huge' explosion [center fuel tank, supposedly] at 13,800'...
The first radio report of the huge fireball explosion was at 8:31:50 - 38 seconds after the initial event.
Some here claim there was 41 second interval between the 'center tank' explosion @13,800' and the 'huge' one at 7500'. -- So? Is this interval critical?
Nobody can concoct a palatable "missile(s) shootdown" scenario with those facts.
If so, -- how does anybody concoct a palatable "center tank explosion" scenario with those same facts? -- Can you tell me?
The conspiracy theorists - and press - jumped to the erroneous conclusion on the night of the disaster that the huge fireball explosion was TWA 800 blowing up at 13,800 feet at 8:31:12. The report of Faret & Wendell and the ATC tape make it obvious that isn't what happened.
Fine. -- You tell all of us what happened. We await your brilliant solution..