I'm not a conspiracy believer. Never have been. Not even during Watergate.
But, I have a BIL that is Ret. Navy. 24 years in engineering. He worked with every aerospace company the Navy dealt with during his time. He went from the Navy to McDonnell Douglas, then to Boeing. He's qualified as an expert witness, and has been called upon for consultations on a variety of aircraft from a multitude of manufacturers. He was consulted by the NTSB & the FBI in regards to TWA Flt 800. He has more degrees than there are letters in the alphabet, and I trust him implicitly and believe him absolutely and without qualification. He never jokes or kids or embellishes, and he's extremely serious in everything he does. Neither his report, nor anyone's on his team has ever been published or even acknowledged.
Without going into detail, which I would probably get wrong anyway, and so as not to help id him, I'll tell you what he says. Based on the available evidence he was able to view, it's physically impossible to have happened in the manner, or by the method, described by the NTSB. He was and is 100% sure there was a coverup.
When I, and the family, pressed him for his ideas on what might have actually taken place, he said that "something" hit that plane. As I recall, he described a possible scenario that was eerily similar to the one described in the article above. That is, a missile descended from above and to the rear.
Since published reports, gathered through FOIA, have accounted for every type of projectile in our inventory that could have been used to do this, there are only two reasonable assumptions left to be made.
1. It was a ground based, shoulder fired missile, fired by a terrorist, or
2. It was, as stated earlier, Black Ops.
My vote goes to terrorism. The only problem with that is, no terrorists have claimed doing it. Still, I believe it was terrorism, and Clinton was involved, and it has been thoroughly covered up. THAT'S my story, and I'm stickin' to it.
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No disrespect to your BIL, but Boeing disagrees with him. And his credentials cannot account for the complete lack of evidence of anything striking the aircraft. Furthermore, it is physically impossible for a shoulder launched missile to have descended toward TWA 800 and struck it from the rear. The infrared seekers on shoulder launched missiles must maintain a lock until impact, and guide to their targets using a lead or pure pursuit. They don't overshoot their targets in the vertical and then descend to hit them. And I'm not sure what you mean by "black ops".
But you see where this leads...you can by all means rely on your BIL. But to do so, you have to discount the findings of Boeing, TWA, ALPA, the NTSB and the FBI, all of whom agree nothing hit the airplane. Then you have to find a missile that could do what you describe, when no such missile exists. That leaves "black ops", but do you really think super secret government organizations do their testing within miles of one of the most densely populated parts of our country? That's what places like Area 51 are for. Again, no disrespect to your BIL, but perhaps he didn't have access to every part of the investigation and might not have been able to draw an accurate conclusion based solely on the evidence he did see.