Sorry, Sarah, but TWA800 WAS a mechanical failure. Quit drinking conspiracy Kool-Aid.
Over 200 eyewitnesses saw a missile streak up to hit flight 800. Two of them happened to be in a Navy plane (National Guardsmen), and one of those happened to be a missile identification expert.
Yes flight 800 was the only 747 in history to suffer from spontaneous combustion.
The US Navy has HUNDREDS of planes every day slamming on carrier decks --what if a spontaneous explosion happened on a CARRIER, loaded with fuel and ordnance..?
The US Navy rightfully wondered about that, and performed many test on their a/c after TWA800 --over 100 times then even dumped entire HIBACHIS full of briquettes, tossed flaming rags, etc into full tanks, 1/2 full tanks, almost empty tanks, and what did they get..?
Nada --not a single explosion.
Finally they very deliberately misted fuel of the same type in a high wind at a FLAMING RAG on a stake with video-cameras rolling --over 90% of the time the rag WENT OUT --it was extinguished.
Fiiiinally they did replicate a single explosion but after they measured the explosive energy produced they saw it would not so much as rupture the a/c's cargo container walls, to say nothing of blowing off the a/c's nose, which was the story.
Bomb or missile? That I don't know, but "spontaneous center fuel tank explosion"...?
It's ridiculous.
The Muslim war on the Imperialist West started well before 9-11, but the theme of Clinton's impending re-election was Peace & Prosperity --going gallivanting around the world in a search for punishing the responsible parties would have upset that.
Much as at Bengazi.
There have, however, been airlines that have been shot down by missiles.
Our own Navy shot one down.