Anyone who has studied aircraft crashes know that eyewitnesses are extremely unreliable.
Funny. There have been quite a few other aviation accidents around Long Island. I don't recall any of these where even five witnesses came forward claiming that they saw a missile rise to the plane in question. Here you have hundreds of witnesses, separately interviewed, who mostly all point along lines which intersect at the point where TWA 800 was stricken.
Yes, witnesses get a lot of stuff wrong sometimes. But not when all of them are telling mostly the same story.
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