Posted on 06/07/2016 5:18:37 PM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
But didn’t they succeed in keeping quiet all the people who worked to set the demolition charges in the two WTC buildings.
JK, JK...
You mean and the million dollar book contract?
“The coverup was so obvious, only an idiot would believe the official explanation.”
Totally agree, and I never bought that stupid “static electricity” nonsense.
More lies from the Clinton’s.
Hocker bump
I was watching the news live when video of it being shot down were shown on cnn they never reshown the video.
I would think if they’re firing off missiles, just about everyone on the ship would know. They would also know their location & time, to be able to correlate that with TWA 800 going down.
This marked the time Rush Limbaugh went over to the dark side. He and Kalstrom became really good buddies and Rush became part of the Marine Corps Law Inforcement Foundation operation.
As an aside to this tragedy, according to Wiki, the TWA plane seen in the movie “9 to 5” is the same one that is the subject of this thread.
Wasn’t Jim Kalstrom part of that cover-up.
He was sort of a left-handed acquaintance of El Rushbo, who swore that Jim would never participate in a cover-up, but when the POTUS gives you an order, and you want to keep your gig..........
I read (and own) Cashill’s book FIRST STRIKE. He is right.
I saw it too. There is video somewhere of the missile with an intense bright trail going skyward;
The FIM-92 Stinger has a range of 16,000 to 25,000 feet depending on what source you read. So why do you rule out a shoulder fired missile.
The FIM-92 Stinger is a man-portable infrared homing anti-aircraft missile system produced by Raytheon Missile Systems. It has a range of 4,800 meters (15,700 ft) and can hit aircraft at altitudes up to 3,800 m (12,500 ft). It has been in service since 1981 and remains in use with the United States Armed Forces and with 30 other countries.
Based on this, a Stinger wouldn’t do it.
Bfl
Georgie Stephanoupolis admitted as much on a nationally broadcasted television interview, albeit unintentionally. My specialty in the service was anti-aircraft missile defense.
I remember when the news first broke and Peter Jennings interrupted the normal broadcast and was interviewing people who were eye witnesses. Both said they saw “flares” go up to the plane and then I understood that they had seen a missile. But I will never forget how Jennings sort of blinked and moved away from their statements without so much as a comment. He had been trained well.
I tend to agree. Who had the capability to shoot down an aircraft under these circumstances, and why would they do it?
Sorry - I don’t have time to read his book.
I was watching the news reports, there were hundreds of eye witnesses, they even showed a video of a rader image shown tracking a missle that hit the plane.
Make no mistake someone shot that plane down.
Later-model Russian MANPADs have similar capabilities. During my aircrew days, the rule of thumb we used for newer shoulder-fired SAMs (in terms of altitude) was 23,000 feet. Climbing against a night sky, with all engines operating above cruise power, the 747 would have presented a very good IR target.
I think Jack mentioned a GA plane, like a Piper Arrow packed with explosives. I spoke with him when he was here in the Bay Area a couple of years ago, and I had connected him with a good friend, now passed, who was a senior TWA captain. He and his wife lost a close friend on TW800.
The fastest way to get him to go off like a skyrocket was to mention the words “Center fuel tank.”
I haven’t looked over the details in a while, but what happened is NOT what we heard.
Exactly. Was the fleet grounded or an emergency AD issued? Nope... everyone kept flying...
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