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Once again you forget one simple little thing: Slipstream. What happens when you punch a hole in an aircraft? Any size hole..? Do you remember that Aloha Airlines flight out by Hawaii back in the 80's? How big was the hole that caused the roof to come off? Now read this slowly so you can understand it: That was a small microscopic crack along a rivet that didn't extend into any structural members. And yet it tore the roof off of the cabin for a couple of stringers. Now, we're talking six pounds of explosive (Or 10 in the case of an SA-18, plus unspent fuel) sending thousands of fragments into the air.. all travelling in the direction of thrust.

Now, what happens when a body panel is torn from the plane in it's own slipstream after a hole appears in that nice thin aluminum skin? IT YAWS! And that's just from getting hit by a Stinger. The plane WOULD yaw and break up while losing paneling. Just keep thinking in the ways of straight newtonian physics... They don't take into account slipstream over the airframe (Aircraft peppered by AA fire also lose body panels and violently pitch/yaw/roll and other things, all without getting hit by an SM-2..got it?)

Metallurgist William Tobin stated that there was no pitting. If no pitting, no high explosives. That does not exclude kinetic energy. Whatever hit the aft fuselage drove a piece of the rear fuselage structure into the cockpit as it left via the large hole in the starboard side of the forward fuselage. It also left a trail of PETN and rocket fuel since it likely was still running at full thrust since its intended target was 4,000 feet higher. The heat from the rocket fuel burning likely set the passenger cabin contents on fire as the fuselage broke up ejecting the victims. The ignition of the CWT occurred later likely when the massive fireball was observed. The cabin contents burning provided the cooking off of O2 cannisters that Fritz Meyer saw and interpreted as ordnance. It also caused the yellow cast to the flames that David McClaine observed. The flaming increased in size to the extent that McClaine felt that he was about to be overtaken and that is when he reached for his own landing light switch to illuminate his own position. This was at the same time that the massive fireball occurred well in front of McClaine's aircraft. The ablation of the cabin contents provided a secondary streak which some, including Meyer, mistook for a missile trail. There should have been only one missile trail, that being when the hybrid SM-2 was launched. Other streaking followed the missile impact but not due to missile trails.