[Moose4]

Shoulder-launched, yeah. Ship-launched, that's a different story. I'm no tinfoiler, but I have often wondered about the possibility of a Standard missile from one of the Navy ships on maneuvers in the area near where TWA 800 went down.

The SA-18/SA-16 Igla is a descendant of the old SA-7 Grail, which was the Soviet bloc's first shoulder-launched infrared SAM. I guess the new ones like the Igla are probably on a par with our Stinger, or close to it. Their warheads are relatively small, a few pounds, but a few pounds of military explosive detonating next to a jetliner's turbofan engine would not be pretty.

}:-)4

[xrp]

Don't Standard missiles have self-destruct? Hopefully at any point if the missile was determined to be heading for an unintended target, it would be detonated.