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One of the questions I always had about flight 800 was what kind of missile could have been used to shoot it down, the aircraft being quite large and at enough of an altitude that it looked like such a shoot down wold be a bit of a stretch for a Stinger with its relatively small warhead. Then came the current downing of MH 17 with a BUK missile. Since the whole BUK system is self contained, relatively small, and highly mobile, the answer came to me. It would have been quite easy for the Iranians to mount one of those systems on a nondescript tramp freighter, sail the ship to the proper location, fire the missile, dump the evidence, and quietly sail away. As we've just seen, a BUK missile definitely has both the range and warhead power to down any civilian airliner, no matter how large.
1 posted on 07/22/2014 5:16:41 AM PDT by libstripper
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Flight 800 Angel Memorial - Montoursville, PA

In a just world, this community would get answers to their ongoing questions.

2 posted on 07/22/2014 5:20:07 AM PDT by FlJoePa
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It doesn’t need to be large if it is well placed.


4 posted on 07/22/2014 5:24:07 AM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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Is that what they call a Freudian slip?


5 posted on 07/22/2014 5:28:42 AM PDT by McGruff (There are none so blind as those who will not see)
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An El Al flight was immediately behind flight 800. That probably was target


6 posted on 07/22/2014 5:30:11 AM PDT by slapshot
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Anderson not buying the ole center fuel tank ruse?


7 posted on 07/22/2014 5:30:50 AM PDT by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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I have wondered why it was a target


12 posted on 07/22/2014 5:36:50 AM PDT by reefdiver (Be the Best you can be Whatever you Dream to be)
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As someone who lived on LI when it was shot down, it was amazing to hear the lies as the story went national.


13 posted on 07/22/2014 5:37:32 AM PDT by dangus
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The US Nave was in the area and there was an ‘exercise’ going on. So maybe it was an air to air missile with a dummy warhead.


15 posted on 07/22/2014 5:39:39 AM PDT by tje
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If I’m not mistaken, Arafat was “in town” on that day, dragging along his bureaucratic thugs.

I’ve speculated that CIA, with the knowledge of Billy Jeff, offered weaponry to the PLO. A military training event was being held in the general area of NY, NY.

Somewhere near LI-NY, on a military obervance skiff, certain missiles were being considered for transaction. Our CIA spooks pointed out a floating target for testing; The PLO thug pointed the weapon at flight 800 as it ascended.

Everybody clammed up and a “credible lie” was formulated (AKA: B.L.E.V.E. in center fuel tank).


16 posted on 07/22/2014 5:43:03 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration: The acronym explains the science.)
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Cluntons should be hung for this.
And he kept ignoring terrorism until they took down the towers.

Read Dereliction of duty.
They knew of this plan in 96.

That fat slunt hitlary was yelling at Bush about what did he know and when to divert attention from the rapist.


18 posted on 07/22/2014 5:49:49 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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Some truths CNN reveals only accidentally. One such truth Anderson Cooper shared on the night of July 17. In speaking about the shoot down of Malaysian airliner MH 17 earlier that day, Cooper referred back to “July 17, 1996, when TWA Flight 800 was shot down off the coast of Long Island in New York.”

So TWA 800 was shot down becasue Anderson Cooper said so. Well thank God that mystery has finally been put to rest.

20 posted on 07/22/2014 5:52:54 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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If he had been listening to G. Gordon Liddy or Quinn and Rose, he would have known that before the calendar flipped to 1997.


28 posted on 07/22/2014 6:09:29 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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The altitude is more of a factor then it’s size. Even a small portable missile will bring down a 747 if it damages the wing when it hits fuel or other major component.

However it takes a big missile to reach that altitude.


34 posted on 07/22/2014 6:24:05 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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For those who didn’t go to the source, Cooper apologized for “misspeaking” at the end of the show.

The CIA’s theory of a “Zoom Climb” is absurd and contradicted by dozens of credible witnesses.


36 posted on 07/22/2014 6:27:39 AM PDT by DManA
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Cooper "got" his mind right an hour or so later:

I just want to correct something I said regarding the plane crash, earlier I said that today was the anniversary of flight TWA 800, crashing off the coast of Long Island in 1996. I believe I said that it was shot down, obviously the government said it was a center fuel tank explosion. Although some people indicated they saw a rocket, there was no evidence of that. It was ruled to be a center fuel tank explosion, so I apologize for misspeaking about that anniversary.

40 posted on 07/22/2014 6:40:58 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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The disgusting fag with the brown ring around his mouth speaks as an authority.


47 posted on 07/22/2014 6:49:41 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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http://flight800doc.com/fact-checking/fact-checking-john-goglia/

FACT CHECKING: John Goglia
Former NTSB Board Member Goglia recently published a review of our documentary for Forbes magazine. TWA Flight 800 documentary Science Advisor Dr. Tom Stalcup responds below.

Goglia: “No Evidence in Aircraft Fuselage Wreckage of Explosion Next to Aircraft”

FACT CHECK: This is inaccurate. China Lake expert Richard Bott wrote the “TWA Flight 800 Missile Impact Analysis” report for the NTSB and determined that an inward penetrating hole on the left side of the aircraft was consistent with a missile diving down from above and to the left of the aircraft. Bott, who’s analysis focused on small shoulder-launched missiles said that this scenario was hard to imagine. However, for larger proximity fused missiles, this attack scenario can and does occur. Furthermore, witnesses reported seeing just such a scenario.

Goglia: “Eyewitness Accounts Not Supported by Radar”

FACT CHECK: This is inaccurate. Many eyewitnesses reported a south-bound missile-like object, heading out to Flight 800. Witnesses said that the object exploded at the aircraft. This asymmetric south-bound explosion was recorded clearly by two nearby FAA radar facilities: one at MacArthur Islip Airport and the other in White Plains, NY. A missile exploding a distance above the left wing is consistent with the radar evidence, the hole described above in Bott’s report, and the observations of many eyewitnesses including Major Fred Meyer, a former helicopter rescue pilot in Vietnam who was flying a mission for the NY Air National Guard in a Black Hawk helicopter nearby at the time. Major Meyer and his crew were first to arrive at the crash site for search and rescue. Both Major Meyer and his co-pilot Captain Chris Baur believe a missile caused the crash.

Goglia: “Trace Amounts of Chemical Residue Common on Everyday Objects”

FACT CHECK: This is inaccurate. PETN and RDX are explosives used in missile warheads. They are never found in every day objects unless those objects come into contact with these explosives. Residue from these explosives were found all over the aircraft.

Goglia: “The aircraft fuel tank and surrounding floor and ceiling debris show metal pieces bowed consistent with extreme pressure from inside the fuel tank.”

FACT CHECK: This is not true for the left wall of the tank. Evidence of metal curling into the center wing tank from the left indicates that the pressure entered the tank through the wall between the left wing fuel tank and the center wing fuel tank. Once that pressure entered from the left, then the entire center tank would over pressurize causing outward bowing of the other walls. This is another important piece of evidence that supports the missile scenario described above: a detonation above the left wing.

Goglia: “During the entire four years of the NTSB investigation of TWA 800, no one – including Hank Hughes ( petitioner and former NTSB investigator) – ever came to me and claimed that evidence was being tampered with or covered up.”

FACT CHECK: Hank testified under oath before the US Senate about this in 1999 prior to the NTSB final hearing on TWA 800. He also complained directly to Investigator In Charge Al Dickinson and others prior to testifying before the Senate. Why would he go to Goglia when Goglia was not assigned to TWA 800? Under oath before the Senate, Hank testified that the FBI mishandled and tampered with evidence. Hank described to the Senators an incident where one FBI agent was banging on a piece of wreckage with a hammer attempting to flatten it.

Goglia: “Since there was no testimony provided to indicate any improper motives, it is spurious to conclude that a few allegedly changed colors on a few debris field tags indicate a cover-up or a conspiracy.”

FACT CHECK: There was no testimony because the NTSB Board did not allow this testimony at either of the two hearings on the crash, even though repeated requests to address this significant problem were made by many investigators. A formal request was also made by TWA’s legal team, and it was ignored. This evidence tampering was finally discussed in a meeting with Hank, other crash investigators who shared Hank’s concerns, the offending party, and the NTSB General Counsel. Even after this meeting, Hank’s concerns were never addressed and the unauthorized changes to the debris field database remain today.

Goglia: “The possibility of a missile or bomb taking down the aircraft was thoroughly examined.”

FACT CHECK: Not quite. In the NTSB final report, they mention looking into one type of missile: the smaller type designed to explode on impact with a target. The hot gases and particles ejected very close to aluminum from these missiles leave unique signatures such as “pock marks,” which proximity fused missiles that explode a significant distance away from their targets do not create. Since no “pock marks” were found, the NTSB ruled out impact by a shoulder-launched missile. However, no where in the final report does the NTSB mention comparing any evidence with damage signatures of proximity fused missiles, which are capable of exploding above and a distance away from the aircraft.

Goglia: “In the end, the totality of the evidence – the metal damage around the center fuel tank, the sequencing of the airplane break up, the radar data, the voice and flight recorders, the multiple tests of various theories – all led the Board to conclude unanimously that the probable cause of the TWA accident was an explosion of the center fuel tank.”

FACT CHECK: The board members settled on what they admit is an inconclusive probable cause because the conclusive evidence of an external detonation was not considered. As an example, 97 percent of the 100+ explosive detections were never considered. Board members were also not provided with any analysis comparing the documented inward penetrations in the fuselage to damage from proximity fused missiles, with which such holes are fully consistent. Likewise, spike tooth fractures (created by high energy events such as warhead detonations) found throughout the aircraft were not compared to proximity fused missile damage. In fact, the word proximity fused missile does not appear in the NTSB final report.

No analysis of the detonation that caused the crash, as recorded by two nearby FAA radar sites, was every mentioned or discussed at either NTSB public hearing.

Neither Goglia nor any board member heard a single eyewitness testify, out of 670 identified. Instead, they were misled by some of their own investigators–one being the investigator responsible for altering the debris field recovery location information–regarding what the witnesses actually saw. On a June 24th, 2013 NPR interview, Goglia rhetorically asked why interview all the witnesses if they all saw the same thing. Host Tom Ashbrook answered, “because 230 peopled died.”


48 posted on 07/22/2014 6:54:18 AM PDT by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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My mouth dropped when I heard it live on CNN when Mr. Vanderbilt said that. I said to myself “you jerk we knew this all along that the plane was shot down”

I never believe what the government explanation was by how many people witnessed that awful night. I recall CNN interviewing a young 12 year old male and he said that he saw something shooting upward over some hill and he turned to his mother and said “Hey mom, look! someone is throwing fireworks over there” and the next thing there was a fireball.

Then CNN interviewed a FBI Agent who had the day off. He stated that he saw something shooting upward and the next thing a big fireball exploded.

No one can’t tell me that was due to some fuel tank. That plane was shot down and Bill Clinton has blood on his hands. Actually both Clintons has blood on their hands. They will pay for it when they stand before God. I pray that one day justice will be served in behalf of those victims.


50 posted on 07/22/2014 7:11:53 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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Cooper was none too kind in his remarks on the Griever in Chief. His title, not mine,


51 posted on 07/22/2014 7:12:28 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek
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This is my TWA 800 theory. The TWA 800 flight path was very close to restricted airspace used for weapons firings. A Notice to Airmen said to avoid this restricted airspace due to live fire testing. When TWA 800 was shot down there was: 1) a Navy P-3C on scene, 2) a Firebee target drone, 3) the USS Normandy (CG-60) within 60+ miles of the flight, and 4) a submerged sub. My theory was the Navy was testing a submarine launched version of the Standard missile. The P-3C acted as observation and controller(?) for the drone. The sub launched its missile, the Normandy's radar acquired the missile and drone for the bird, and the missile went for TWA 800 because it was a better and stronger target return than the drone.

The missile was a telemetry bird with no warhead. The seeker of the missile would have targeted the center of mass (center fuel tank) because it gave the best radar return. The missile acted like a cookie cutter, punching through the plane from bottom to top. In the process, the missile airframe disintegrated. Spilling fuel was either ignited by burning missile propellant or the jet engine exhaust. That's my theory and YES, everyone involved will keep this secret. SAC Kalstrom’s investigation was a whitewash.

57 posted on 07/22/2014 8:15:23 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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