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TWA Flight 800 investigators break silence in new documentary, claim original conclusion about cause
Fox ^ | 6/18/13

Posted on 06/18/2013 5:51:17 PM PDT by workerbee

A group of whistleblowers, including a number of aviation experts, have come forward in a new documentary to claim that the official explanation for the crash of TWA Flight 800 was wrong and a gas tank explosion did not bring down the flight off the coast of Long Island 17 years ago.

However, the six whistleblowers, all part of the original investigation team, stopped short of saying the plane was shot down.

Flight 800, a Boeing 747, had just taken off from JFK airport with 230 people aboard on July 17, 1996 enroute to Paris when it exploded and crashed off the coast of nearby East Moriches, Long Island, killing everyone on the plane.

“..This team of investigators who actually handled the wreckage and victims’ bodies, prove that the officially proposed fuel-air explosion did not cause the crash,” reads a statement by the producers of the film, which will debut on cable network EPIX next month. “They also provide radar and forensic evidence proving that one or more ordinance explosions outside the aircraft caused the crash.” However, the statement said they did not speculate about the source or sources of any ordinance explosions.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: facepalm; terrorism; tinfoilhat; twa800
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To: bmwcyle
100 witnesses who saw a missile can’t be wrong.

Anyone remember the CHINESE NUCLEAR MISSILE launched from a Submarine near Hawaii that there was VIDEO of ? It wasn't a missile, yet millions claim it was.

In the case of TWA800 there is actual evidence, which validates the witness sitings. Witnesses alone are not always 'proof'.

81 posted on 06/18/2013 7:10:05 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: rickmichaels
"July 17, 1996 - The very same day John Joubert was executed in Nebraska. Not related of course. I just remember the date."

Also the date of the founding of the Baath party in Iraq; Saddam Hussein's calling card and part of his revenge for the Gulf War.
82 posted on 06/18/2013 7:12:21 PM PDT by KamperKen
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To: UCANSEE2

Witnesses are only good for courts, not FBI investigations,


83 posted on 06/18/2013 7:12:40 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Black Agnes
But is the residue of unexploded or exploded plastique explosives? There's a huge difference between the two....
84 posted on 06/18/2013 7:15:31 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: KamperKen

Really?
Huh. Coincidences are something, aren’t they?


85 posted on 06/18/2013 7:16:30 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
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To: Patton@Bastogne
The Whitehouse will soon look like the violent classic movie The Departed pretty soon ...

Is that anything like this?


86 posted on 06/18/2013 7:17:33 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: RayChuang88

Yes.

Let me find the reference if I can. I lived in the area at the time and this was local news every night for months afterwards.

http://articles.latimes.com/1996-09-24/local/me-46909_1_twa-flight

http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/bomb-theory-exploded-chemicals-jet-june-test-article-1.735881

etc.

I thought at the time the whole explanation was a giant pile of dog poop. I had physics. Passed it too. The plane climbing reconstruction was laughable.


87 posted on 06/18/2013 7:18:13 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: workerbee

Yes, really. Quite the ‘coincidence’, don’t you think?


88 posted on 06/18/2013 7:19:38 PM PDT by KamperKen
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To: workerbee

Of course it was shot down.


89 posted on 06/18/2013 7:19:39 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: driftdiver
You mean the ex vietnam helicopter pilot who said he saw a missile may have known what he was talking about?

Him and 130 others.

90 posted on 06/18/2013 7:22:34 PM PDT by marron
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To: stboz
Good evening.

...but they were at the scene when things happened.

IIRC, it was a SM 2 test. Went down the memory hole rather quick I thought.

5.56mm

91 posted on 06/18/2013 7:22:40 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: workerbee

Bookmark.


92 posted on 06/18/2013 7:23:16 PM PDT by sport
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To: ncfool

Remember the timing. TWA 800 went down in the weeks before the Atlanta Olympic Games. Clinton did not dare allow any terrorist event scare off potential spectators.


93 posted on 06/18/2013 7:24:00 PM PDT by Petruchio (Democrats are like Slinkies... Not good for anything, but it's fun pushing 'em down the stairs.)
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To: bmwcyle
Remember the thread last year about the Chicom missile launching just off California? In reality there was no missile at all, but instead a regularly scheduled air freight flight coming in over the horizon near Sundown.

That one had all sorts of 'experts' going out of their nuts on 'gotta' be a missile' comments.

So, reeling back toward Flight 800 as I recall I was the only one on any of the threads to note that a bolid coming in over the horizon would look like a missile streaking up and not a meteor simply going into low orbit where it connected with an airplane.

So, one more time folks, there was a regularly scheduled meteor shower that evening ~ it'd been underway in Europe for quite some time and the zone where they became visible to us finally rotated into the debris raining down. However, there are always some early chunks that are a bit bigger ~ being outside the main path of the ancient comet that left that stuff in the way, they can retain size better. Might even have been several chunks and observers on the surface would see them climbing up, not coming down!

Safe to say the center tank didn't need to explode at all to knock that plane out of the sky.

94 posted on 06/18/2013 7:26:28 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: stboz
Somewhere Mike Rivero is smiling a little.

As is Pierre Salinger.

95 posted on 06/18/2013 7:27:35 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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To: Raycpa
The main argument against other causes was the notion that too many people would be involved to keep it secret.

The funny thing was, the results of the investigation were announced before the investigation started. Once it started, the investigators were not allowed to discuss anything with one another. They were only allowed to pass their findings upstairs. That way, no one had the full picture except the guy at the top, who had already stated what the conclusion would be.

96 posted on 06/18/2013 7:31:16 PM PDT by marron
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To: Yo-Yo
who was that guy...Micheal Rivero....who believed that because the "dogs did not bark" that it was probably a horrendous mistake by our own Navy...

I could go either way....wasn't this shortly after the ATlanta bombing?..I think if terrorists bombed the plane, the last thing the govt wants is to frighten the public, especially if I am right that it was during the Olympics....

I can see the govt especially evil rat ones covering up things....if it was foreign terror, the govt does not want to give the terrorists the satisfaction of the whole world knowing what they did...

its one of those things I will alway wonder about and never know the truth...

97 posted on 06/18/2013 7:32:04 PM PDT by cherry
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To: driftdiver

“You mean the ex vietnam helicopter pilot who said he saw a missile may have known what he was talking about?”

Ha. Good point.

Do they mean some 170 witnesses along the southern coast of Long Island who “saw a missile rise into the air” (AND TOOK PHOTOS OF IT) weren’t hallucinating?

It was obviously shot down, but this month is “Throw everything at the wall to distract from Benghazi” month, so we’re hearing this now.


98 posted on 06/18/2013 7:33:22 PM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: Yo-Yo
who was that guy...Micheal Rivero....who believed that because the "dogs did not bark" that it was probably a horrendous mistake by our own Navy...

I could go either way....wasn't this shortly after the ATlanta bombing?..I think if terrorists bombed the plane, the last thing the govt wants is to frighten the public, especially if I am right that it was during the Olympics....

I can see the govt especially evil rat ones covering up things....if it was foreign terror, the govt does not want to give the terrorists the satisfaction of the whole world knowing what they did...

its one of those things I will alway wonder about and never know the truth...

99 posted on 06/18/2013 7:34:45 PM PDT by cherry
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE
A lot of us said bullsh!t at the time and were called tinfoil hat types.Typical.No lawsuits against Boeing over the gastanks.

Nor was the fleet grounded for retrofits.

100 posted on 06/18/2013 7:34:48 PM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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