Look fellas, if you want to believe what you want to believe, fine, it's a free country. But all the bellicose shouting will not do one thing to change the probable cause of the accident. TWA 800 was not an act of terrorism, sabotage or the result of friendly fire. TWA 800 was that 1:1,000,000,000 shot that no one, not Boeing, TWA or FAA could have foreseen.
Vernon L. Grose, BS, MS, DSc.
...began his professional career as an applied physicist at The Boeing Company. A world authority in applying systems methodology to managing risk, he has served as an executive in three major corporations, university professor in Europe as well as the United States, and consultant to Fortune 100 corporations. President Reagan appointed him to the National Transportation Safety Board and the National Highway Safety Advisory Commission. The White House assigned him for one year to the Associate Administrator for R&D at the Environmental Protection Agency to implement systematic management of risk. A consultant to the President's Aviation Safety Commission and an invited expert to the 1997 White House (Gore) Commission on Aviation Safety & Security, he has been CNN's Risk Analyst. He has given over 300 interviews on many topics to TV, radio, and written media. The National Academy of Sciences has named him to three commissions, and in 1981, the Peoples Republic of China invited him to address their Academy of Sciences in Beijing. Author of MANAGING RISK: Systematic Loss Prevention for Executives which is widely used in universities and now in its third printing, his professional papers have appeared internationally in over 60 journals and periodicals. He is the originator of SMART (Systems Methodology Applied to Risk Termination).
I believe President Reagan appointed Dr. Grose to the NTSB several years before the events of July 17, 1996. I leave it up to the reader to decide whose credibility is suspect...Dr. Grose or SBeck.