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
I saw the video, too. Call me a nutter if you like, but I will never believe the spark story because of that video.
I think it was a successful terrorist strike.
Sorry but the Afghanistan shoot downs were at much lower altitudes and speeds... as were the 26 total civilian aircraft that have been brought down by "stinger" missiles. They were taken out shortly after takeoff or on approach for landing. The missiles were fired close enough to lock onto a single heat source and not be "confused" by a multiple target. The Tier One Stinger Missiles that hit their engines were much less sophisticated than a Tier Two MANPAD which have greater range and longer engine ignition times.
The resolution of the IR sensing array is too course to differentiate the location of any one engine at the closing speed and the missile's simplistic computer will target the center of the averaged IR image. This is particularly true of an "All-Aspect" targeting missile. This means that the missile will lock-on to the center of the overall IR signature of the target, not a specific engine.
The Mistral and several of the Stingers are "All-Aspect" and will lock on to the signature. If the missiles fuel has been expended and it is "coasting" then all steering is aerodynamic and the small fins of the missile do not allow gross or quick maneuvers. By the time the Mach 2.5 missile is close enough to differentiate the four heat sources, it is far too late to lock on to any particular one and maneuver for an accurate hit on an engine. The evidence actually points the possible missile actually hitting the aircraft IN FRONT of the CWT.
Come on man, whoo ya gonna believe, your lieing eyes or the govt?
What good is a terrorist attack if (a) nobody knows you did it and (b) you never repeat it (I.e., not a dry run.)?
OK. But go back and look at what I posted in #97. Under normal circumstances, an airliner flying out of JFK would have been at least 2,000 feet higher than Flight 800 was that night.
This is another very important point. The CIA/FBI "explanation" of the incident was supported by a test that was basically staged. This means that the official investigation into the demise of Flight 800 is no more credible than that stupid NBC investigation into the exploding fuel tanks on pickup trucks.
And had those tests had brought down a commercial airplane in the middle of the exercise area then how long do you think that coverup would have lasted?
The area is one of the busiest shipping lines on the east coast, Long Island has an enormous number of privately registered pleasure craft as well as an active commercial and sport fishing industry. In all that how does a boat qualify as 'unexplained'?
Like who?
How many missile firings has she witnessed? Just curious.
Yeah but we have an agreement with them. We don't shoot off missiles into the most heavily traveled air corridors in their country and they don't shoot off missiles into the most heavily traveled air corridors in ours.
But as someone else pointed out, the Stinger has a heat-seeking IR warhead. It would home in on the hottest thing around, which in this case would be one of the 4 engines. Nothing I've seen indicates that an engine was hit.
I had 25 years of military service and that's the first time I've heard anyone, including Clancy, claim that his novel was based on a true story. If an insurance salesman like Clancy could have found out about such an incident then don't you think the media or another author would have found out about it as well?
Only one that she mentioned.
JP-5 and JP-8 are military fuels and are specially formulated to have a higher flash point for safety reasons. Commercial jet fuel in the U.S. is called JetA and has a lower flashpoint. The flash point for JP-5, for example, is 60 degrees celcius or 140 degrees farenheit. The flash point for Jet A is 38 degrees celcius, or 100.4 farenheit.
In any case, his book drew a lot of attention among Defense Department officials, and they investigated him extensively because they couldn't figure out how so much supposedly classified information could have ended up in his book unless he had a mole inside the Pentagon.
The Netherlands, for example.
NATO ships have been prominent fixtures at "Fleet Week" festivities in every Memorial Day weekend in New York harbor for years. Do you really believe they sail those ships all the way across the Atlantic Ocean just to take part in these events?
First, you unbundle the wad of wires left there when the installer went to lunch!
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