First, the Navy (and not just ours , but from several nations) were conducting exercises shooting down drones.
If one ship (as you say) had shot just one missile, and none of the others had, then your speculation makes sense.
HOWEVER, if each ship had been firing missiles over and over, all day long during these exercises, how would any of the crew have any idea if ONE of those missiles hit an airliner ?
Now, to the missing point. It may not have been a missile that hit the plane. It could have been the DRONE that the missiles were supposed to shoot down.
And the source for that is?
HOWEVER, if each ship had been firing missiles over and over, all day long during these exercises, how would any of the crew have any idea if ONE of those missiles hit an airliner ?
The air traffic corridor out of New York to Europe is one of the most heavily traveled air traffic corridors in the world. And you're saying the U.S. Navy was shooting off missiles near that? Really?
I was specifically responding to a post regarding a submarine launching the missile. I was in the navy at the time of TWA 800 and my two submarines did not have anti-aircraft capability. So if a sub did launch an anti-aircraft missile, it would have been experimental. I doubt they would be part of exercises.
But you seem to be speaking of surface ships conducting routine exercises. Okay. So the navy would send these ships hundreds of miles away from the nearest base to conduct live fire exercises on flying drones in the same airspace as the busiest airports (JFK, LGA, EWR) in the US? And then every single sailor onboard all these ships agreed to the cover up?
That seems even less probable than a random exploding center fuel tank, which I don’t fully buy.