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TWA 800: Breaking -- Air Traffic Controller Tells All
American Thinker ^ | 6-13-16 | Jack Cashill

Posted on 06/13/2016 8:53:08 AM PDT by Lockbox

As I hoped would happen, American Thinker’s series on TWA Flight 800 has prompted individuals with first hand knowledge to come forward. “Mark Johnson” is one. An air traffic controller (ATC), he worked the night of July 17, 1996 -- the night TWA Flight 800 was destroyed -- at the New York Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) located in Westbury, New York.

Johnson has provided me with his real name, and I have confirmed that he was in a position to know what he says he knows. He requested that I use an alias because he has children who depend on him. The federal government, he believes, “will seek revenge, retribution and/or any other remedy they feel like. I would be fearful my pension would be at risk.” I have heard this sentiment voiced by many people involved in this incident.

Although Johnson was not responsible for tracking TWA Flight 800, he spoke directly with the ATC who did. In fact, he asked him “plenty of questions to prepare myself for the ‘suits’ who were beginning to arrive.” Along with several other ATCs, he viewed the radar tape of the incident. According to Johnson, “A primary radar return (ASR-9) indicated vertical movement intersecting TWA 800.”

An advanced radar system, the Northrop Grumman ASR-9 is able to detect a “target” in severe clutter even when the target has no transponder. The absence of a transponder is what distinguishes a “primary radar return” from a “secondary” one. In others words, the radar picked up a small, unidentified, ascending object intersecting TWA 800 in the second before the 747 “disappeared from radar.”

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: atc; cashill; clinton; clintonlegacy; conspiracytheory; coverup; foilwatch; planecrash; twa800; twaflight800
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To: Lockbox
My suspicion of a cover up came into play early on ... James Kallstrom the lead FBI official investigating TWA Flt. 800 initially was investigating the missile theory. Less than three days into the investigation he was summoned to Washington. When he returned the investigation shifted immediately to the exploding empty fuel tank theory which is now the reason cited for the explosion that destroyed the aircraft. This was a cover up no question ...
81 posted on 06/13/2016 10:03:37 AM PDT by BluH2o
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To: B212; pfflier

Also Doppler shift on the frequency of your radar return can tell you the velocity of something.


82 posted on 06/13/2016 10:05:56 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: Moonman62

According to the NTSB report the radar in question did not record altitude data.....
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The transponder in TWA800 would have been broadcasting altitude data.


83 posted on 06/13/2016 10:06:15 AM PDT by oscar_diggs
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To: Talisker

***Who was on the plane?***

Well, I have nothing to verify this information with, but a friend of ours claims to be ex-CIA. When 800 was blown up, he told us that there was a person related to the 1993 WTC bombing on that airplane. He said that’s what he heard through his grapevine. He was pretty shaken up about it, and told us in strictest confidentiality. Mind you, I have no idea if any of it is true, but it has always made me wonder.


84 posted on 06/13/2016 10:06:50 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: meatloaf

“the ship’s crew would all have knowledge of the event”

It could be only a few people on board knew. It is not like many people on the ship, at night, can see outside.


85 posted on 06/13/2016 10:09:31 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: patriotspride

It was my thought at the time that some of those Stinger missiles had fallen into the hands of a terrorist cell and they brought it down.
I can see why the Clintons would want to hide that little fact, because it would have shut down all international air travel just like 9/11 eventually did. Plus the US would have been liable for millions of dollars in liability lawsuits, which would mean a ‘discovery’ process that would have been devastating to them personally and politically.
George Stephanopolous ‘accidentally’ let a Freudian slip come out at that time a little while later and referred to it as a ‘terrorist’ incident......................


86 posted on 06/13/2016 10:09:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: wbarmy

“And New Yorkers who know about the lie will still vote for Hillary.”

Not this New Yorker.


87 posted on 06/13/2016 10:10:18 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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To: kingu

“but utterly useless for determining the difference between high and low velocity explosions.”

Wrong. Doppler shift would still tell you want you want to know.


88 posted on 06/13/2016 10:10:35 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: marron

And all of them, every one, was said to have confused the trail of the missile for a reflection off the water. Sickening.


89 posted on 06/13/2016 10:11:36 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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To: Yaelle
Why not tell the American people, who are supposed to own our military? Why not mea culpa, $ to the families, sadness, mourning, openness, honesty????

They might have blamed St. Bill, who was "too busy running the country" and had a "very important election" coming up.

90 posted on 06/13/2016 10:12:25 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Moonman62

How many incidents of center fuel tank explosions have there been in the history of airliner flying?


91 posted on 06/13/2016 10:13:25 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns.)
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To: Mr. K

As was I.

Does anyone else remember an animation shown on CNN that showed a small meteor striking the plane? Only saw it the once.


92 posted on 06/13/2016 10:13:56 AM PDT by KEVLAR (Liberty or Death)
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To: wyowolf

and I agree with you too,,,
but,, why havent we heard from any of the Benghazi survivors yet? we know they exist..


93 posted on 06/13/2016 10:16:26 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: pfflier

isn’t what the statement says. it says they had a hard radar return on a vertical moving object close to the airplanes path just before the plane went off radar. Didn’t state that the radar discriminated the explosion.


94 posted on 06/13/2016 10:27:13 AM PDT by reed13k
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To: ClearCase_guy
50 state landslide for Trump if this gets recognizef as a Clinton cover-up of a terrorist attack.

That hasn't happened in 20 years so far.

95 posted on 06/13/2016 10:30:52 AM PDT by Lower Deck
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To: Lockbox

Bookmark


96 posted on 06/13/2016 10:32:08 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Talisker
Logically it was from a USN asset - most likely a sub

And how would that work exactly?

97 posted on 06/13/2016 10:32:53 AM PDT by Lower Deck
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To: TalonDJ

In 2000 the first paper on perhaps discerning doppler shift using an ASM-9 radar data stream was published, which has since been cited by 16 other technical papers.

That was four years after the accident.


98 posted on 06/13/2016 10:39:09 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: aragorn
Not only is it possible, it has happened.

When? Details please.

99 posted on 06/13/2016 10:39:27 AM PDT by Lower Deck
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To: TalonDJ
It could be only a few people on board knew. It is not like many people on the ship, at night, can see outside.

You cannot fire a missile like a RIM-66 Standard without everyone on the ship knowing about it.

100 posted on 06/13/2016 10:43:59 AM PDT by Lower Deck
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