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.
Im no conspiracy theorist, but lets 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. Theres 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, its usually because theyve been shot down or bombed. Theres 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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Was it ever determined if naval maneuvers were operating in the area? Were there no witnesses out there on the ocean? No interviews? Did any ship involved in that have surface to air capabilities? Did they look at the inventories to see if any missiles were missing?
They must have asked these questions.
Check out that photo again.
It nails him IMO.
I never understood WHY they covered it up. Seeing how the country went hysterical after 9/11, it may have been justified.
Actually, there was much discussion about the event here on FR. An ex-user named Michael Rivero presented opinions that were much-criticized. Take a look here for some of those threads.
Clinton was facing re-election in 4 months. He didn't want to appear weak or be shown to have had a massive intelligence failure. If nothing else, the Dole campaign or maybe Perot would have hammered him about it enough to cost him the election.
It was just easier to invent some zoom climb bullshit and blame it on a mechanical failure instead of Clinton getting painted as weak on security.
For those that don't know, Jack Cashill and James Sanders wrote a very good book on all this: First Strike
The radar evidence is irrefutable.
There are ‘targets’ diverting from the aircraft vector at Mach speeds...only possible from high-order detonation, be it missile warhead or otherwise, not a GD low-order fuel-vapor explosion.
Combined with the witness statements, the question comes to mind,
“Why lie?”
Discussing/debating possible theories/answers to clearly fabricated reports are not ‘conspiracy-theory’, but the very foundation of this country, in particular seeking the actual truth of the matter DESPITE the coverup...
But we’ll never know if this was covered up to keep a ‘terrorist attack’ off Billy’s rap sheet...’cause Billy’s got a shot to get back into the WH as 2nd-fiddle.
But the very idea that dozens, if not hundreds, of government employees between multiple departments, covered up the actual cause of that ‘disaster’ concerns me greatly. That and the fact that not a single one of them has come forward to corroborate the charges of others (they must value their federal pensions more than the Constitution; for that they should be all imprisoned, imho).
One thing I didn’t mention is that, unsurprisingly, the Clinton administration were keen to squash any talk of domestic-based terrorism after the first WTC truck bomb.
Politics uber alles!
He’s Rush’s buddy so Rush won’t touch the topic.
As a Myth Buster watcher, I am amazed at the perfect conditions needed to explode gas inside a close area. There has to be the right Oxygen levels, circulation and even obstructions (better mix the Oxygen and Gas). I am sure jet fuel different than propane or natural gas, but did the NTSB ever replicate the conditions need to explode the tanks?
Add Vince Foster and I’m with you.
Oh, I forgot about that one. Absolutely!
And, come to think of it, Oklahoma City. Did they ever find the man of middle eastern descent? And what is with trying to escape in a car with no plates?
Actually there are several systems for subs to launch surface to air missiles. And it is certainly possible that one was being tested.... however terrorism is more likely.
Wouldn't the possibility that a surface-to-air missile system was being tested inshore, adjacent to the flight path out of JFK, be essentially...zero?
never understood WHY they covered it up. Seeing how the country went hysterical after 9/11, it may have been justified.
...ahhh, really? justified to make up a story and lie about innocent civilian deaths ? There was no hysteria after 9/11.... maybe they miss you over at DU? No conservative would justify dishonesty to win an election just cause the BentOne didn’t want to have another scandal over security to explain, and was too much of a coward to retaliate if it was a foreign power and not a naval exercise accident...
ymmv
Did some research, and there was a 1/3 replica tank made and exploded. Never test actual 747 wire to test the high voltage jump theory. So as MB says- Plausible.
I’m about 2.75.
Unless you want to add in Mena, Benghazi, the BC (and the “story” of 0vomit in general), and probably a few others I don’t recall at the moment. Interesting that all of these are tied to democrats and many to the Clintons.
You know, I never understood Rush’s stance on that.
I don’t always agree with Rush, but this was one of his most flagrant mistakes IMO.
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