Although it's rare for a meteor to hit a plane, they've been known to hit houses and cars. We had one hit a dentist's office nearby a couple of years back. The belief this doesn't happen, that we don't have rocks falling from the sky, is still around in some quarters. But I have a clue for those quarters, the Earth is round, it's in space, things traveling parallel to the ground are coming up on your left, right, front and back ~ and sometimes they drop out of orbit.
You mean the hundreds of eye witnesses, or the crowd on FR, or the engineers and mechanics at TWA, or the people who took video and had their entire CAMERA taken ?
Although it's rare for a meteor to hit a plane,
Actually, it's impossible. Now.. bolides and meteorites could strike a plane. Meteorites (albeit very small ones) strike planes all the time.
The belief this doesn't happen, that we don't have rocks falling from the sky, is still around in some quarters.
Had a 40 year old female 'friend'. She told me that meteorites (aka Shooting Stars) were STARS that fell from the sky, and that's why we can't see as many STARS in the SKY as we used to.
But I have a clue for those quarters, the Earth is round
It only look round from far away. An optical illusion. It isn't round, it's shape changes with the procession of the moon, and up close it's just undescribable, especially where it gets hit by rocks falling out of the sky.
NOW... back to your theory. The bolide would have to have a certain mass for it to work. Too small, it wouldn't have caused the plane to crash. Too big, it would have vaporized the plane. It would have to be like Goldilocks and the Three Bears "just the right size".
Next, there would have been multiple 'explosions' in the form of what sounded like semi-auto cannons going off. Do you remember the recent METEORITE coming down over RUSSIA? I listened to one of the best 'soundtracks' of the meteorite. The 'bangs' going off before the final BOOM were like the gunfire in a RAMBO movie. In the TWA800 case, I don't remember any reports of multiple shockwave type noises, or of large 'variations' in the brightness of the object(missile).
You mean the hundreds of eye witnesses, or the crowd on FR, or the engineers and mechanics at TWA, or the people who took video and had their entire CAMERA taken ?
Although it's rare for a meteor to hit a plane,
Actually, it's impossible. Now.. bolides and meteorites could strike a plane. Meteorites (albeit very small ones) strike planes all the time.
The belief this doesn't happen, that we don't have rocks falling from the sky, is still around in some quarters.
Had a 40 year old female 'friend'. She told me that meteorites (aka Shooting Stars) were STARS that fell from the sky, and that's why we can't see as many STARS in the SKY as we used to.
But I have a clue for those quarters, the Earth is round
It only look round from far away. An optical illusion. It isn't round, it's shape changes with the procession of the moon, and up close it's just undescribable, especially where it gets hit by rocks falling out of the sky.
NOW... back to your theory. The bolide would have to have a certain mass for it to work. Too small, it wouldn't have caused the plane to crash. Too big, it would have vaporized the plane. It would have to be like Goldilocks and the Three Bears "just the right size".
Next, there would have been multiple 'explosions' in the form of what sounded like semi-auto cannons going off. Do you remember the recent METEORITE coming down over RUSSIA? I listened to one of the best 'soundtracks' of the meteorite. The 'bangs' going off before the final BOOM were like the gunfire in a RAMBO movie. In the TWA800 case, I don't remember any reports of multiple shockwave type noises, or of large 'variations' in the brightness of the object(missile).