I'm not interested in tracking down either book and spending the time reading it. How about a quick synopsis of the missile system in question?
There are actually two aspects to this story: What happened, and the cover up. What happened can still be debated, but the documented evidence of the cover-up that took place is completely damming.
I get their version of what happened - the military missile system shot it down. As for coverup, there are probably hundreds of versions of that.
“I get their version of what happened - the military missile system shot it down.”
When I get home tonight I’ll did out the book and recap it for you. And NO their version of this is NOT that a military missile shot it down. Their version is that the military missile shot down a terrorist fired missile, but the intercept occurred too close to the plane and fragments blew it up. And intercepts taking place too late and fragments hitting the target, while improved, is still a problem with every missile defense system today.
And this was all kept secret because a military weapon knocked out the terrorist weapon just a little late? NO. It was kept secret because the Clintoon administration had ample warning and failed to take any action. There should have been nothing for the military to shoot at in the first place.