[TXnMA]

All of those issues have been answered on this and other FR threads. Just because you haven't seen the answers yet doesn't mean they are not available...

The flight has now been narrowed down to one of two likely candidates... To take a look at the filght path data -- in 3-D -- go to this long page of photos and graphics. (Be sure to look all the way down the page to get the flight path graphics.

[ex 98C MI Dude]

That puts it to bed, doesn’t it? It was an inbound airplane from the Pacific, not an outbound missile.