2) I don't care how many "eyewitnesses" you have. It's irrelevant if they mis-saw something. Eyewitness testimony, as any attorney or cop will tell you, is notoriously unreliable. I'm satisfied with FBI interviews of these people that showed that, in fact, most did not "see" what the reports claimed they saw.
3) Yes.
4) But all this continues to get away from the REAL evidence: there was no missile that could have done this capable of being fired by anyone other than the U.S. Navy in a DELIBERATE attack. This cannot "happen" accidentally. If you work with the military, you know how incredibly detailed "live fire" operations are; how ESPECIALLY in zones where civilians might be nearby, tremendous precautions are taken. No one has explained how a "Standard" (the ONLY missile that could have done this) was "accidentally" fired. (Doesn't happen). If it did, THOUSANDS of sailors, radar guys, air guys etc. would have been in on it, and you never would have kept a lid on that. Simply impossible. And "Standards" are not just fired off except in highly controlled tests (too expensive), so for a test you would have a drone (oops! No radar signature of a drone hovering around the area for a half hour!), and no way a "Standard" would jump from a drone to a real plane. Finally, you have aborts on these tests.
So ruling out foreigners (couldn't, didn't, had no weapon support capable of doing that); ruling out accidental; all you then are left with is a deliberate launch. Silly.
Now, use Occam's Razor. When you eliminate the alternatives, an exploding tank is all that fits the evidence, regardless of what people think they "saw." Again, note in Dallas hundreds of people "saw" shooters on the "grassy knoll," but no sound evidence of a shot exists; no other bullets were ever found; no forencis evidence of people standing or shooting from the front; etc.
Thanks for your response. If we’re going to go by Occams Razor the simplest answer is the one that we should follow. The simplest answer is that hundreds of aircraft flying out of Middle-Eastern ports of call in the midst of summer, didn’t develop what an aircraft traveling out of New York did one summer evening. If the parts were faulty, the parts would have been faulty in other aircraft as well. And they weren’t.
The center fuel tank may have blown, but it didn’t blow by natural causes.
Six hundred people in an arc of about 240 degrees saw something fly up in the air to reach the aircraft. Their observations of the location of the specific item they saw, makes it clear they each saw the same thing from different perspectives. And over 600 people seeing this, it defies Occam’s Razor to ignore what so many people saw. The simple answer is, they saw a missile. No convoluted twists of logic and warps of reality are going to change that.
All things considered, the simplest explanation is that these people saw a missile leave the surface of the ocean and hit TWA 800. That’s the end of discussion.
If you folks want to play flights of fantasy, be my guest.