This had alway been a bone of contention in that the radar track does not support the "Zoom climb" after the nose was first lost....
While the radar track does not show altitude, only ground speed and direction... you can deduce climb or dive from ground speed (straight ahead and level true ground speed ...90 degrees straight up or straight down = 0 ground speed... as you go in to a climb you see ground speed lose then a speed up and you come over the top )
.... TWA 800 radar track just show basically simple curve in loss of ground speed
All the rest of official story could be true... but the "Zoom climb" to explain the upwards light streak seen in the sky by the witnesses does not seen to be supported by the radar track
And the only reason the"Zoom climb" is in the official story IS to explain the upwards light streaks seen in the sky by the witnesses that others say was a missile(s)...
Add in the fact that the witnesses content they saw the light streaks go up first then the explosion fit a missile(s) hit before not a zoom climb after
And add in the fact that Bubba admin at the time seem to be motivate to "not want" any terrorist acts so he didn't have to confront it (it cost political capital and support to take any hard stand, ask Bush)...so if you could explain it away as something else... do it
So yes I have strong doubts on this one
I'm not going to read all 1200+ replies to this thread but I will put my $0.02 in on one subject that I am certain of..
1.) The "zoom climb" scenario cannot be confirmed by ground radar as civilian ground radar is passive and simply reports what the aircrafts transponder sends out, in either scenario that aircraft had SERIOUS pitot-static instrument issues going on that would preclude accurate reporting of altitude IF the nose was still attached and the installed equipment was able to transmit data which it was not.
2.) Even if the engines automatically throttle back when signal from the cockpit is lost these are HUGE engines and it will take them a very long time to spool down.
I don't know what happened but I wouldn't put anything past Gorelick ,, we had already been hit once with the 1993 WTC bombing , Clinton has refused to take UBL into custody prior to this suspicious accident and if there was evidence pointing to other than an accident it would have been ordered suppressed by the Clinton white house....