When you’re at sea, you train 24/7, even off the east coast.
There’s no way in hell the Navy would be firing missiles off Long Island. If you saw the amount of “COM AIR” in that area on a radar display, you’d understand why.
I don’t know what happened to 800 but it was not the Navy.
The Vincennes was in a hostile area. EW’s were picking up AWG-9 emissions on the same bearing as the Airbus. They thought the Airbus was an Iranian F-14.
Ryan, my objective isn’t to place blame on anyone. If (and I say this objectively) the Navy did make a mistake, I would grumble and forget about it. There were reports of people seeing some type of missile in the area about six days prior to TWA 800. I’m not trying to give anyone a hard time here, other than to say that I do not believe the government line on this accident in the slightest.
Was it the Navy? Some have come to it’s defense and I can understand why. I believe you folks do so with more information than I, and the honest belief that it just couldn’t have been involved. I don’t fault you for that. I only consider it because something caused it and there aren’t too many entities out there that could have been responsible for this.
If it was a terrorist act, I would have expected the government to be honest about it. The only reason for a coverup in my estimation, would be a cause that the government just couldn’t own up to. Terrorism, a government mistake, I don’t honestly know. Too many eye witnesses saw the deed. Evidently some electronic evidence of this popped up later also.
Thanks for the response. I appreciate your thoughts on it and I’m not here to belittle your opinion.
Also, I understand Iranian airliners use transponders similar to those used by their Air Force aircraft, since airliners are used as military transports when not hauling civilian passengers.
“The Vincennes was in a hostile area. EW’s were picking up AWG-9 emissions on the same bearing as the Airbus. They thought the Airbus was an Iranian F-14.”
Didn’t someone say that there was something weird about the “squawk” from the plane’s transponder too?