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Like the folks who claim that man did not land on the moon, you point out minutae and expect folks to agree with it. Sorry, for a supposed engineer you sure have lost a lot of your analytic skills.

If you seriously believe that you have more expertise and insight than a $100,000,000 investigation can produce then their are several psychiatrists that I can recommend. Relying on half-baked assumptions and bloviating on about kinetic energy impacts is not scientific investigation and I would only expect it out of mediocre individuals.

I have no idea as to what you eat for breakfast, but I would advise you to switch brands. KKV's have been around since 1995 and it is feasible that a test would include one. What do you think that our tests in the Pacific use? An accurate missile does not need an exploding warhead. The one that hit TWA800 left only a cloud of chaff to mark its intercept. Modern chaff is designed to linger for a half hour to radar paint the results of a test. It is very light, hair like in lengths of 0.8 to 1.6 inches. Its latent heat from its mortar firing caused the TWA800 chaff to rise approximately 700 to 1,100 feet above the point of impact. When WHPS Mike McCurry stated that the 'glitter' reflected radar, he was referring to the chaff which is designed to reflect radar. Using 'glitter' would be much cheaper if it really worked. But the onboard glitter was only 0.003 inch in diameter. Please tell me what radar would be tuned for this tiny wavelength. Never hoppen, mon. The PETN which was found in the aircraft debris would be the ideal propellant for chaff due to its ultra fast burn rate. The 'dogs' must have flunked their imaginary test. How did they expect the dogs to climb the cargo bay curtain where PETN was found, not to mention the trail which passed through the passenger cabin? Dogs, like glitter, were luckily found only after they were needed to explain the facts in a fantasy way. BTW, I'll match my education and professional experience with your's any day. Being blind to the facts is easy for idiots. Just close you eyes and pretend that they go away.

If you believe that spending large sums of money makes something worthwhile, you need a good course in history. Our government does not manufacture a product. Most government projects devote 90% for administration leaving only 10% to get something done. Bureaucracies gain fame is spending large amounts of money on boondoggles. This NTSB investigation was a boondoggle of the worst kind. The cause of the crash was known early on and the reconstruction was only one small part of the boondoggle. The reconstruction left out the point of impact which was behind the portion shown. How else did PETN get on the cargo bay curtain? A part of the rear fuselage structure ended up in the cockpit. The exit point of the KKV was likely the large hole in the starboard side of the forward fuselage. The NTSB admitted that extraordinary damage occurred to the rear fuselage structure and rear seats but attributed that to water impact. As if the rest of the debris did not impact the water? Exhibit 13E showed the impact debris centered on a line roughly 20 degrees off the path of the aircraft to the right hand side. The fan shaped debris pattern appeared to be around 40 degrees in width. The cloud of chaff was off to the left hand side of the flight path but it may have been displaced from its real position. The chaff held to a steady altitude of 14,400 to 14,800 feet of altitude. The presence of chaff proves that the missile launch was a test rather than terrorist action though current politicians are trying to blame the terrorists for that as well. Not having an explosive warhead also disproves terrorist involvement. Only a supersonic SM-2 size missile could break up a B747 due to impact alone. Shoulder launched missiles without warheads should only bounce off of a jumbo. That is why the government test off Eglin AFB was so ludicrous to begin with. The only explosion which was visible to most witnesses happened around 20 seconds after the missile impact. The cost of the Eglin AFB test was only a small part of the unnecessary boondoggle. Having CalTech take part in the ruse was a disgrace to our higher education assets. CalTech used to have a good reputation, but no longer, to be pigeons.

Since you purport to be a knowledgeable person in aeronautical subjects, I might ask you as well: What is your analysis of the anomaly listing in Exhibit 10A? A bona fide aeronautical engineer would have done an analysis of these. BTW, I worked on Apollo and was inside the S-II booster which carried the first landing mission, Apollo 11, to the moon. I most certainly would not claim that that was a fraud. The connecting shield which is seen in tapes of the booster separation may have been the actual part which I was doing final design on. NASA flight director Gene Kranz was a schoolmate of mine except he was behind me. I remember him when he had bright red hair and clipped his sliderule to his belt which swung like Zorro's sword. He was laughed at in school but no one is laughing now.