Posted on 06/23/2016 4:49:06 PM PDT by Kaslin
Throughout the TWA 800 investigation, authorities held the grief of family members in ready reserve to ward off tough questions. Within months of the July 1996 crash, FBI honcho Jim Kallstrom was citing the "consternation and pain" of the families to silence critics. True to form, the media interviewed only those family members that affirmed the government position. Many parents, like Lisa Michelson, did not. -- Jack Cashill
When I came home from work on the evening of July 17, 1996 I turned on the television and the newscasts were all saying the same thing: TWA Flight 800, bound for Paris, blew up off the coast of Long Island.
My nineteen-year-old son, Yon Rojany, was supposed to be on TWA Flight 841 bound for Rome. Basketball coach Larry Brown had seen Yon, an excellent athlete, play in California where we lived and encouraged him to try out for the Italian Basketball League. Yon thought it worth a try and was on his way to Italy.
However, as soon as I heard the news and saw the images of flaming wreckage, I knew. I knew in the way only mothers know that Yon was on that Paris-bound plane. I called TWA throughout that night, desperate to be proved wrong, but I was sure I wasn’t. It took an endless two days before my niece, who was in Paris, was able to check the passenger manifest in Paris and confirm my fears.
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My summer reading is this book, “See Something Say Nothing” and “Crisis of Character.”
Mothers don’t corner the market on loving, nurturing, caring, and bonding with their children. For the Fathers TWA800 also was yesterday.
Not a day goes by they don’t relive that fateful night. Trust me.
COVER UP. COMPLETE klinton COVER UP.
agreed... former colleague.. Aerospace engineer was on the industry support Team for the NTSB on 800... worked on it for months then went to the final meeting... handed gift bag told to sit, sign non disclosure from FBI, 60month min jail time for violation, tv crews rolled in and the announcement was made it was the center fuel tank.. all bullshit
Missile through wing and fuselage.. look as the pax list... lots of USG types that knew too much in my opinion..
Like who?
I heard something very similar from someone else with a friend on the investigation. I worked in aviation and had very experienced friends tell me it was crap.
Bullcrap. The missile theory was because the FBI was hot to find it as terror because it happened during the Olympics. This was a flying Richard Jewell investigation.
Is your theory that the missile was a US Navy missile and somehow THAT was kept secret? Or maybe you mean a shoulder fired heat seeker that was beyond its range and altitude and somehow missed the four enormous engines blasting out heat, and struck a fuselage instead.
Silliness. I want to see someone tell me what Ship fired the missile. This is right up there with charges placed in the World Trade Center.
Now tell us, Mr-Know-It-All, how many planes were retrofitted with devices to prevent spontaneous fuel tank combustion after TWA 800? The answer is zero.
Then tell us how many planes blew up because of spontaneous fuel tank combustion in the last 20 years? The answer is the same.
What is your theory?
Be back bump for hocker
Yeah. Actually there were about 20 wiring changes and there was a retrofit requiring an inert gas to fill the fuel tank as it depleted. This took effect on US registered planes.
Now for you. Tell me what ship fired the radar guided missile. Or failing that. tell me why a heat seeking shoulder fired one exceeded its max altitude and range, and didn’t hit the giant heat emitting engines, but hit the cold fuselage.
Also tell me what terror group claimed it? Unless of course you think the USA did it and was able to keep that quiet. Swing and a miss sparky.
“according to Christine Negroni, whose book Deadly Departure is one of the most exhaustive explorations of the TWA crash, there have been at least 26 such explosions of one form or another, on both civilian and military aircraft. Most of these were minor in comparison to the catastrophe of flight 800, but not all of them were harmless. A tank explosion once destroyed a Thai Airways 737 parked at the gate in Bangkok killing a flight attendant. “Efforts by safety investigators to do something about the explosive nature of empty or nearly empty fuel tanks began back in the 1960s,” says Negroni.
Yes, it was an accidental fuel tank explosion. And if you read the full report and weigh both sides, I think you’ll feel the same way. Frankly, the film is a little insulting to the many NTSB, FAA, and TWA employees who devoted so much time and effort to solving the flight 800 mystery.
Among the more interesting and tell-tale evidence: There had been intermittent problems affecting the plane’s cockpit voice recorder and number four (the 747 has four engines) fuel-flow indicators just minutes before the explosion. These anomalies would seem unrelated, but it so happens the wire bundle to both components passes just above the center fuel tank, and is the same wire bundle suspected of having caused the explosion. The problems with the gauge and the CVR were consistent with the wires short-circuiting, and this short-circuit would ignite the fuel vapors moments later. This isn’t quite a smoking gun, but it’s the closest thing to it. Investigators found the wires crimped and cracked, and suspect they’d been damaged during repairs that had taken place in this area two weeks prior. Additionally there had been water leaks reported in and around the center section galley in the days leading up to the crash. This galley sits directly on top of the wire bundle.”
You write of nearly deplete fuel tanks exploding. But Flight 800 was full of fuel.
Kallstrom convinced a lot of people, including John Gambling who’s on NYC talk radio. I heard Gambling talk about this issue.
never said it was US Navy.. you did
another interesting factoid... since I was an aircraft structural engineer at a major airline and was on the NTSB support team list..just was not my rotation to do to twa 800.. every major protocol for crash investigation was ignored... US Navy did the crash survey and recovery... only other time that was done was for JFK Jr... splain that dude... splain the NDA on the engineers from industry... still enforce by the way. go watch the press conference... the one view of the industry types is very telling.
If the fuel tank was issue every 747 flying in the far east and middle east, parked on the ramp in TX would just explode...not to mention every KC-135 formerly B707’s and B720’s... zero fuel tank grounding
I have never doubted that TW-800 was destroyed by an explosive on board. Based on the reassembled fuselage in my opinion you can see where the explosion “bulged out” the co-pilot’s side, aft of the pilots’ compartment.
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