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To: ml/nj
I don't have access where I am to my TWA files, so I don't know how much information I have on the provenance of the radar tapes that show the movement of the various objects in the area of the crash.
You are a mad man. There are so many crazy statements in this thread, I'm having a tough time trying to keep them straight.

1. Ships/Subs on Radar - We're talking ATC radars here, which even in the best of circumstances often have inconsistent low altitude coverage - of airplanes. They're certainly not designed to see ships. In fact, based on the specific application (Secondary Surveillance - interrogating aircraft IFF/SIF) many of these are pulse-doppler radars. They're designed to see the airplanes transponder, and failing that, to get a "skin paint" on an aircraft above a certain radial velocity. Any ship or sub would get filtered out with the rest of the ground clutter.

2. SAMs - A SAM system is extremely complex, and often operates only within the smallest envelope of effectiveness. An SA-7 or SA-14 is going to be a rear-aspect shot only, and of extremely short range and low altitude. They will also either strike the engine or wing near the engine. It's also unlikely an SA-7/14 would cause an immediate catastrophic loss of the aircraft. They have very small warheads. Lastly, it's unlikely that the terrorists/Clintons/aliens would have deployed on SA-2 or SA-6 on the United States coast.
203 posted on 11/10/2006 7:53:26 AM PST by BARLOCK
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To: BARLOCK
You are a mad man.

Ah, the old ad-hominem. You can always count on statements like this from folks with nothing to contribute.

I wonder if you have ever seen the NTSB's own data from the BlackBox recorder. I mean the first version they released, which indicates that there was explosion outside the aircraft, rather than the "corrected" one which removed data supposely left over from an earlier flight.

ML/NJ

206 posted on 11/10/2006 8:24:23 AM PST by ml/nj
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