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"For you, I'm guessing that a conspiracy thread is one where the US Government official version of things is different from what many folks including myself believe to be the truth."

It is a little more than that. I consider a conspiracy thread to be one that focuses on a conspiracy theory. And the theory is usually presented as a fact, although it relies far more heavily on theory than fact. And the number of people who believe it doesn't matter. Chemtrails are a conspiracy theory that few people believe. Amazingly, there were people on this site (now banned) who believed in them. The conspiracy threads I find most interesting are the ones involving subjects I am most familiar with. I've served in the military since 1985. I've been a professional aviator since 1989 flying everything from single engine cessna's to MD-11's. Obviously, subjects involving the military and aviation interest me.

"So tell us all, it's obvious you believe that TWA was a center fuel take explosion without followup grounding and airworthiness directives and that all the witnesses are idiots, but how 'bout the others."

That isn't what I believe because it isn't accurate. TWA 800 was brought down by an explosion originating in its Center Wing Tank. The best engineers at Boeing confirmed that. But the rest of your statement is inaccurate or reflects ignorance ("ignorance" not implying stupidity, but an honest lack of knowledge). Aircraft types are almost never grounded as a result of a single accident. In fact, if 747's had been grounded as a result of the TWA 800 incident, it would be so unusual it would probably become grounds for another conspiracy theory. As a reference, recall that DC-10's were not grounded after the famous Sioux City crash, A300's were not grounded after AA587 went down, and 737's have never been grounded despite flying with known rudder problems for decades.
As for airworthiness directives...there have been well over a hundred related to findings from the TWA 800 investigation. The article at the following link summarizes what has been accomplished and what is yet to be accomplished since TWA 800 went down. Keep in mind that he NTSB does not issue AD's. They can only make recommendations. It is the FAA who writes and enforces regulations.
NTSB MARKS 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF CRASH OF TWA 800
Finally, nobody associated with the investigation believes the witnesses are idiots. In fact, they relied on witness statements to help reconstruct the events of the night. But when a witness 12 miles away from TWA 800 says he heard an explosion the same time he saw a large explosion, he is not observing the event that made the noise he is hearing. It is a simple matter of physics. The job of an accident investigator is to consider the whole picture, and not cut and paste the parts he likes best.

"Do you really think Vincent Foster committed suicide?"

I don't know much about that. I despise the clinton's and don't doubt they are capable of having someone killed, but I haven't looked too deeply into it.

187 posted on 04/01/2007 9:08:04 PM PDT by Rokke
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To: Rokke
But when a witness 12 miles away from TWA 800 says he heard an explosion the same time he saw a large explosion, he is not observing the event that made the noise he is hearing

Maybe what the witness(es) heard was a sonic boom, or some noise associated with the launch(es)? Do you really think that all these people made up the sound they heard. The soonest anyone on the ground could have heard noise associated with the fireball would have been 15 seconds after they saw it. But that's not what many of them describe, is it? So what did cause that sound?

ML/NJ

188 posted on 04/02/2007 4:15:00 AM PDT by ml/nj
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