TWA 800: The Great Untold Story of Our Time

American Thinker ^ | June 7, 2016 | Jack Cashill

[Kaslin]

On the pleasant summer evening of July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 left JFK Airport in New York bound for Paris. Twelve minutes after takeoff, about ten miles south of the popular south shore of Long Island, at least two surface-to-air missiles blew the 747 out of the sky, killing all 230 people on board.

I write the above with 100 percent confidence. I owe that confidence to the efforts of a small corps of committed individuals -- eyewitnesses, independent researchers, whistleblowers from within the investigation, and family members who have turned their grief into action. In attempting to get at the truth, at least three of these people were arrested, several others were thrown off the TWA 800 investigation, and every one of them was ridiculed.

In TWA 800: The Crash, The Cover-Up, The Conspiracy (Regnery: July 5), I get to tell their story, an epic one. What makes the story so compelling is that these everyday citizens have struggled against a Goliath that could not have been more powerful. The opposition includes, among other powers, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the FBI, and the CIA.

In a totalitarian country, authorities can suppress information at will. In America, the media have to collaborate in that suppression, and this they did, closing their eyes to the obvious and accepting without evidence the government’s unproven theory of a spontaneous fuel tank explosion.

[Jack Hammer]

No, no, no - it was stirring the fuel tanks.

It happens all the time.

I know, because the government told me so.

[Bull Snipe]

the “few Navy personnel” would supposedly include the 300 man crew of a Burke class DDG or 400 man crew of a Ticonderoga class CG. When a anti aircraft missile is
fired from these ships, everyone on that ship knows what just happened.

[OldNewYork]

I just can’t see every sailor remaining silent if that happened.

[Sirius Lee]

In America, the media have to collaborate in that suppression, and this they did, closing their eyes to the obvious and accepting without evidence the government’s unproven theory of a spontaneous fuel tank explosion.

Son of Mockingbird is alive and well apparently.

[Lower Deck]

Climbing against a night sky, with all engines operating above cruise power, the 747 would have presented a very good IR target.

Then you would have expected the missile to target one of the engines and not the fuselage.

[Lower Deck]

I think Jack had mentioned a Cherokee 6 or an Arrow - some six-seater single-engine (probably turbo’d) plane that could reach that 16,000-25,000 altitude. Packed with explosives to T-bone the 747.

Then wreckage of the Cherokee 6 or Arrow would have been found at the crash site. It wasn't.

[Lower Deck]

The Russians wee driven out of Afghanistan by Osama's minions using stingers, shoulder fired missiles, knocking soviet military aircraft out of the air.

At much lower altitudes than TWA 800.

[Lower Deck]

The crew of the Navy warship that allegedly buried Osama bin Laden at sea seems to be quite tight lipped. Not one cell phone snapshot or video has appeared. No one from the ship has given a statement regarding the burial.

Assuming that it really did happen, crew of the ship didn't bury him. A small number of people did.

[Lower Deck]

I’ll repeat the gist of a comment I posted on FR years ago: there is no way in hell that aircraft departed for a transatlantic flight with an empty center fuel tank.

Sure they would. The distance between New York and Paris is about 3600 miles. A 747-100 fully fueled can fly 6100 miles. The airplane would carry enough fuel to make the trip with a safety margin but it's not going to haul fuel it doesn't need.

[Lower Deck]

Questions?

One. How does a submerged submarine know what it's shooting at?

[Lower Deck]

I recall something, that seems to have ?disappeared — someone was trying to give out information saying he was on a US submarine — I think secret, or its technology was, that BY MISTAKE fired missle/s from under the water near by. Like unknown that such tech was able to do that.

Weapons don't get fired by mistake, especially from submarines.

[Lower Deck]

I had heard that the U.S. Navy had been in the area with subs that were preforming war games and shot it down by accident.

How do you shoot a commercial airplane down by accident?

[BluH2o]

Haven't read thru all the responses, someone may have already mentioned this ... James Kallstrom the lead FBI agent in the investigation of TWA flight 800 initially had his team investigating the criminal or terrorist angle. Within a few days he was summoned to Washington, when he returned the direction of the investigation changed to the empty fuel tank explosion theory. All other evidence was ignored from that point forward. Did Kallstrom get his marching orders while in DC? One might think so ...

[surrey]

My uncle was lead mechanic for TWA (off that night) and says the center fuel tank was NOT the problem. He feels the truth will come out eventually. He says the navy divers know the score.

[Hulka]

Agree,
But to the tin-foil hat crowd, the absence of proof proves how good the conspiracy cover-up is.

[Hulka]

A missile launch rings the ship like a bell,
Everyone knows,

[Hulka]

Because the missile plume would have burned out long before it reaches 5,000 feet and the missile is non-reflective and about 4’ long, and with no plume and no reflection and small, no way it could have been seen miles away,

[dmz]

I have one question.

Why are you hiding in anonymity if you know this for a fact?

[Hulka]

Missile plume burns out before 5.000 feet.
No vapor trails or plume.
Contrails from the jet, if anything.
I’ve been shot at by MANPAD over southern Iraq. I know what it looks like and how hard it is to see when you are in the jet being shot at, let alone being miles and miles away trying to see 4’ long non-reflective plumeless missile.

[Rocketwolf68]

Air defense artillery has come a long way since the stinger missile. There are plenty of arrows that could have reached that flight.