Sounds like you know your missiles DR, (I know squat about them), so here is a question: Could one of these stinger missiles be fired off from inside a small plane, (flying up at an altitude that would have brought TWA 800 in range of the stinger’s distance limits), out of one of it’s side doors or windows, (with the stinger’s ‘exhaust’ vented out the opposite side window or door)? Could a stinger be ‘fixed’ to one of the plane’s wings and been fired of from inside the plane’s cabin? What do you think?
I think this is crazy land. Yes, a stinger could be wing mounted. No, never fired from in the cabin of a GA plane. (excepting suicide of course)
And still, where is the terror group that claimed this? This missile thing degenerates into batguano theories so fast. By the way, where is the missile frag damage on the recovered airframe?
And for extra fun. why did the heat seeker hit the fuselage center and separate the forward section, and NOT one of the 4 -enormous- heat sources out on the wings?
I know, it was a super secret variant of the stinger....