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You say the NTSB's assumption the 6/10 exercise was conducted aboard 800 is erroneous. What do you base that on? An "investigative" report by a reporter with very questionable motives (Hendrix)? As is reported by both the NTSB and conspiracy reporters "investigating" the exercise, there was almost no documentation of the exercise, and the officer concerned was relying on his memory of something he had conducted 70 days before his interview.

The shelf life of PETN and RDX certainly is relevent, as is the manner the exercises are conducted because it changes the timeline required for such an incident to have taken place from 6/10/96 to any day 30 years prior to the crash. From the officer's recollection of the exercise, it is a sloppy procedure. He recalls det cord dust visibly escaping some of his packages, and he recalls his training aids were stored in direct contact with other military type explosives. Clearly, it isn't beyond the realm of possiblity for PETN and RDX to have been introduced into TWA 800 by one of those exercises. In fact, it would be surprising if it wasn't. Does the specific date matter? Only if your motive is to cast doubt on parts of the NTSB investigation. Not if your goal is to identify how explosive elements made it onto the aircraft.

I'll agree that there is a descrepancy between the NTSB account and subsequent accounts published in tabloids, but it is your choice to believe who you want. You rest your hat on reporters who make their living generating news, and I'll rest mine on sworn testimony presented to Congress. I'm not going to argue that people don't lie to Congress, but at least the penalties for doing so are a lot higher.

With regard to PETN and RDX dissolving in salt water, that would certainly imply the explosive elements were introduced after the crash. Apparently that isn't always true, or somehow the pieces of wreckage containing the microscopic trace elements weren't exposed completely to salt water. A common problem with folks unfamiliar with aircraft accident investigation is they insist everything must be black and white. It is or it isn't. There can be no ambiguity. Well, they are wrong, and unfortunately there is a whole industry developed to take advantage of their ignorance in the form of tabloid reporting, investigative novels and documentary films.

If your purpose in this thread is to provide evidence of controversy in the TWA 800 incident, then I'm afraid you are a bit redundant. I do appreciate the fact that you can present your questions in a generally civil and mature manner. That makes you unique in debate full of dead horses.

Here's some questions....YOU produce YOU'RE evidence.....
Why did the Justice Department write off a dozen or more high explosive residue hits on Flight 800 debris as being contaminated from a dog handling exercise done 10 June 1996 in St. Louis when no written record of such training exists?

Why would the FBI find the recollection of the dog trainer credible when his first two guesses as to the date of his training, the aircraft wasn't in St. Louis, and in the third guess the aircraft's recorded departure time was in conflict with his testimony?

Review the following, and make your own assumptions:
http://www.multipull.com/twacasefile/january.html

Just SHOW, not tell me my questions have NO MERIT, and we can move on.