There was at least one book written about this incident, speculating that it could have been a navy training (inert) missle, that punctured the cabin, leaving red “missle fuel residue” that the FBI confiscated (except his remnant) and was witnessed by about 286 people including on duty pilots. The FBI further harrassed his gov’t employee wife, etc... I believe that radar shows the missle approaching the plane. I am not saying that I believe that our navy did it, but I do believe that a missle from somewhere took flight 800 down.
More from Cashill - Pt. 10 on TWA-800:
# Naval presence. Despite at least six credible sightings of a Navy warship off Long Island after 3 p.m. on July 17, the Navy insisted it had none within two hundred miles of the crash site. Under duress in November 1997 the FBI admitted that the Normandy and now three submarines—Trepang, Albuquerque, and Wyoming—were in the “immediate vicinity” of the crash site.
# Mystery ships. For five months the FBI denied the existence of a “surface vessel” that it would later identify as being three miles from the crash site, having a speed between twenty-five and thirty-five knots, and fleeing the scene. The FBI finally admitted its presence but never identified it.
We don't shoot "inert" missiles. The "bluebirds" are on the rails when you go in and out of port and to conduct training but cannot launch. White missiles are the warshots, and those are fully functional. It may have been a missile, which I agree, but it was not a Navy missile.
No "inert" missile is used in excercises, and if it was, then a TARGET missile would have been present too (not). Sometimes, as in the JFK assassination, the most obvious, simple facts are the correct ones.
And it's amazing to me how many military-loving Freepers will assume that HUNDREDS of sailors and officers would keep their mouths shut about such an incident had it occurred. Yet not one single "leak" in eight years? come on.
“There was at least one book written about this incident, speculating that it could have been a navy training (inert) missle”
Just one problem with that, “inert” missiles are just that inert. They can’t fly, they don’t go BOOM either.