Are you sure about the deformation? I haven't heard that one before.
Still ..... no chemical residues, no abundant shrapnel fragments as one would expect, if it were a missile. Many missiles above the MANPADS class are designed to do much of their disassembly work through fragmentation, such as the expanding-rod warheads common in U.S. Navy SAM's and AAM's.
See Commander Donaldson’s REport. You can view it at twa800.org or .com.
It has a picture of it in the report. you should read it.
I have to say that I don’t know what weapon brought it down, or the semantics of how they work, but in light of 911 and how that took place nothing surprises me at all.
All I know is that after speaking with a couple of commercial pilots and talking with my cousin who is the head of security at detroit airport, I am convinced that something brought that plane down on purpose and the plane just did not explode.
correction not detroit airport. Sorry.
What if they are a dummy missile, being used to test anti-missile missiles?