If my memory serves me correctly, it was reported on the news (once) that the plane that was scheduled to take off at that time was El Al--but TWA 800 got clearance from the controllers first.
It was never mentioned again....kind of like when that USAir plane went down with our entire Energy Department executives on it (during Clintoon's administration) and the first thing out of their lying mouths was that it wasn't a bomb, even though that hadn't been investigated yet.
Sure makes you wonder.
What is there to wonder?
If Gorelick, Clarke and Clinton had been completely HONEST
to the American public about the Islamic-crashed airplanes, like TWA800, in the 90's
or the other Islamic terror attacks, then Americans WOULD have been on alert on 911
and would have had the opportunity to prevent the 911 Atrocities.
Instead,
PARTIAL LIST OF TERRORIST ACTIVITIES IGNORED BY HILLARY and BJ CLINTON
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr., April 14,1993
1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured,
1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995
1996 Khobar Towers attack
1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998
1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1998 U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1999 Plot to blow up Space Needle (thwarted)
2000 USS Cole attacked, many U.S. Navy sailors murdered
My memory of it(I was on duty TWA at the time) was that 800 was delayed because of equipment issues and when it finally left the gate, the procedure for a late departing flight is that it jumps to the head of the line. The scheduled departure was, in fact, an El-Al flight but 800 bumped the line and got clearence for that departure slot. If an attacker was selecting a target based on scheduled departure times, TWA 800 would have, to their knowledge, been the El-Al aircraft. I heard that here in STL within a day of the incident in a briefing.