Posted on 07/18/2006 7:13:58 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
Cape man buoys theory missile downed jet By Joe Dwinell
A Bay State physicist is taking on the National Transportation Safety Board in federal court in Boston to help bolster his theory a missile is to blame for taking down TWA Flight 800 a decade ago.
“I don’t want this 10-year anniversary to go by without paying attention to this plausible theory,” said Tom Stalcup, a Falmouth resident who holds a doctorate in physics and heads up the Flight 800 Independent Researchers Organization.
Flight 800 exploded and crashed in the sea south of Long Island, N.Y., at 3 p.m. on July 17, 1996.
Stalcup’s group, linked mostly by the Internet, has filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Boston seeking documents relating to the crash, including a “wreckage item” that exited the plane’s airframe at “apparent supersonic speeds.”
Stalcup alleges the Navy recovered this “smoking gun” wreckage.
Federal officials say the crash was an accident - not a missile strike from a Navy exercise or anything else
"It was exposed wires that ignited the vapor in the fuel tank."
Those wires could have been left in a tank full of jp, with absolutely no insulation on them whatsoever, and they still would not ignite the fuel. They do not carry enough current.
Jet fuel is very hard to ignite. When they did the CWT test, they had to feed much more current through the wires to get it to spark, than the wires could ever conceivably carry.
Kinda like putting a small wire across your car battery terminal posts. It's a really cool explosion. But not something you would ever design to be immersed in jet fuel.
Find out what the wires were attached to, and you will see they were not the source of the ignition.
"And terrorists don't have the kind of radar guided missiles necessary to blow a 747 out of the sky when it is at 15,000+ feet."
TWA800 was not at FL15000+
Just under FL10 is more accurate.
And the Israeli's said the Hezbollah didn't have anything that could hit their ships. OOPS.
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Apparently not. There are conflicting reports. However, the CNN program the other night showed a current day interview taking place in front of the reconstruction. I have heard that it is being used for reconstruction training. I have also heard it was taken away and sold for scrap.
If they are lying about the "remains" of TWA 800 then why should we believe anything they've said.
Not when it is hot.
"and there are no MANPAD missiles (that I know of) that meet this criteria."
That's why I like FR. You learn something new every day.
Yes there are missiles that meet that criteria.
Not necessarily true. An IR seeking missile will only see the average of the heat sources and aim for that average. The Center Wing Tank is at the center of the infra-red averaged image of the four engines and the heat from the airconditioning units. At the velocity of the MANPAD (Mach 2.5) by the time it got close enough to distinguish any discrete heat source, it is too close to make any turns... It actually could hit anywhere on the plane... or miss entirely.
"Not when it is hot."
OK. What is the ignition point of JP-5? JP-8?
How many small private vessels were in the area? I'm not proposing any specific scenarios, but I do know that the whole exploding tank theory and the CIA video are an insult to anyone with any intelligence who has studied the events, witness statements, and the evidence.
So until I hear a reasonable theory for what brought the plane down, I'm going to go with the scores of credible witnesses who saw a streak rise from the ocean/horizon and impact the aircraft.
The Academy's new 72,000-square-foot, two-level facility, includes:
# Laboratory to house instructional wreckage, including the 93-foot reconstruction of the forward portion the TWA flight 800 aircraft's fuselage, the largest reconstruction in the history of civil aviation
Have you read Peter Lance's book, "Cover Up"? The book has extensive information on Ramzi Yousef. There are two chapters on TWA 800, and much more information in the book that ties together.
No. Any info I got came from FR.
I thought about getting his book and Sanders.
Perhaps you can enlighten me.
You were going to list out MANPAD radar guided missiles?
Weren't you?
Hang on while I google it.
...It would have run out of fuel 3000 feet ago, and is coasting.
You may actually have something there, but not much. IR seekers go for the heat, and with no countermeasures happening, it will lock on to an engine, and go there. There have been a couple of MANPAD attacks on Commercial jets in Afghanastan, and both hit the engine, not the fuselage, and those jets were well within range of the missile.
Wow, the Dems didn't complain about the CIA being used on American soil.
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