DJ MacWoW included a link to an inaccurate news article about witnesses Faret & Wendell in his #883 and I provided him with their own report in my #885.in which they indicated that their own flight altitude was 8500 feet when the "huge red-orange" fireball ball exploded below them, that when they flew over to the smoke cloud it left - "we were at 7700 feet and were at the top edge of the cloud. The cloud center was at 7500 feet" - and there was nothing unusual in the sky above that altitude.
The NTSB's Exhibit 4-A includes airborne witnesses' altitude estimates of the huge fireball ranging from about 4000 feet to about 8000 feet.
As I recall there was also a report that a US satellite had detected the huge fireball explosion about a mile above the surface.
If you're gonna mention someone, you ping them.
Especially if you want to claim something like you are saying.
And DJ is a SHE.
I provided him with their own report in my #885.in which they indicated that their own flight altitude was 8500 feet
Post 883
Faret said he and a co-pilot were about 11 miles from Flight 800, flying at 8,500 feet, about a thousand feet higher than the doomed passenger jet. It went "straight down, like a rock," he said.
CNN-No evidence of terrorism in TWA crash, U.S. officials say Posted on July 18, 1996 Web posted at: 2:30 p.m. EDT