Posted on 04/16/2015 10:55:24 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Was TWA Flight 800 shot out of the sky?
As a former pilot, that is a question I get asked about all the time.
I’m no conspiracy theorist, but let’s be clear: Yes. I say it was. And I believe the FBI covered it up.
LOOK BACK: REPORTING THE CRASH OF TWA FLIGHT 800 ON JULY 17, 1996
There are many reasons to disbelieve the official explanation of what happened to TWA 800 almost 19 years ago, on July 17, 1996, off the South Shore of Long Island. There’s hardly an airline pilot among the hundreds I know who buys the official explanation — that it was a fuel-tank explosion — offered by the National Transportation Safety Board some four years later.
Lots can go wrong with an airplane. Engines can fail; they can catch fire. Devices can malfunction. Pilots make errors.
But jets do not explode in midair.
If they do, it’s usually because they’ve been shot down or bombed. There’s little to suggest that there was a bomb onboard, but there is ample evidence that a missile of some sort detonated in the air very close to the plane and brought it down.
A former colleague, who will remain unnamed because he was not authorized to speak publicly about this, served as one of the lead investigators representing the interests of the TWA pilots, and I talked to him at length about the investigation after it was completed.
I have also spoken with another former TWA employee, who has knowledge of what went on in the aftermath of the crash.
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Would that include pilots and military veterans?
How many of them have actually seen a military surface-to-air missile in flight?
This is not a top secret thing.
There are many more military veterans on the streets than exist in active military.
In addition with the Internet and video, many millions have seen rocket/missile launches from nearly ever angle possible.
I wasn’t aware of that one.
Apparently you don’t know the difference between the words ‘possible’ and ‘likely’. If you think I made an ‘absolute statement’ then I suggest you go spend some time with a dictionary.
Clinton’s getting it all out early.
Sub launched missles.
This was the public announcement in 2012. It was probably in dev/testing for years before this release. This was only one example of many that came up.
This is an easy Google search.
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