"According to a senior member of the staff of then-Secretary of the Navy John Dalton, the test firing of a new generation Navy missile from the submarine USS Seawolf accidentally struck TWA flight 800 en route from New York to Paris on July 17, 1996. According to the former Navy official, the missile test was so important for the Clinton administration, it was being shown live on a Navy closed-circuit television feed at the White House. The Seawolf's missile was to have struck a drone reportedly being towed by a Navy P-3 Orion maritime surveillance aircraft. However, to the horror of the Navy personnel involved with the test and senior White House staff gathered to witness the missile's successful launching, it veered off course and intercepted the TWA 800 Boeing 747, killing the 230 passengers and crew on board the aircraft.
The Seawolf, which had recently completed sea trials but had not yet been fully commissioned into service, was participating in a major Navy exercise off Long Island in exercise area W-105. The exercise was dubbed GLOBAL YANKEE '96."
It is inconceivable that the US Navy would conduct a live missile test in an area of heavy commercial air traffic.
I ain't buying it.
Thank you. Looks like I nailed most of it with simple logic. And it also looks like the coverup trolls are still alive and well, 24 years later.
The Seawolf, which had recently completed sea trials but had not yet been fully commissioned into service, was participating in a major Navy exercise off Long Island in exercise area W-105. The exercise was dubbed GLOBAL YANKEE '96."
Well let's see. USS Seawolf was commissioned in July 1997, one year after the TWA 800 downing. She didn't even begin sea trials until July 2, 1996 and two weeks later would not even be close to completing sea trials and wouldn't be testing her normal weapons suite much less top secret missiles. I find it hard to believe that such a test was so important that the president had to be involved. If you're right this was a test of an anti-aircraft missile. Why would that be so important that the president would personally oversee the testing? Drones are not towed, targets are. Drones are by definition self-propelled, and P-3s would not be used as target tugs. The navy has other aircraft for that. And why would the navy test such a super-secret missile next to a heavily trafficked air corridor and millions of potential witnesses instead of the much more secure surroundings of the test range off Puerto Rico?
But I give the blogger high marks for imagination.
The crew of the P-3 that was towing the drone was immediately transferred to new assignments. The P-3's number 3 engine showed signs of damage from the explosion of TWA 800 and maintenance records on the engine were suppressed by the Navy. Three other submarines participating in GLOBAL YANKEE '96 were also ordered out of the area. They were the USS Albuquerque, the USS Augusta, and the USS Trepang. The FBI accounted for all missiles aboard the three submarines but not those on board the Seawolf, which was not yet officially commissioned into service and which had just completed it sea trials a little over a week earlier.
Our source confirmed that US Navy SEAL team members were dispatched to recover TWA 800 wreckage with the sole intent being the alteration of the debris to fit the story of a defective fuel tank explosion. Two U.S. Navy salvage ships, the USS Grasp and USS Grapple, were sent to Long Island waters to recover TWA wreckage.
In 2000, conservative pundit Reed Irvine confirmed what Salinger had reported four years earlier. Irvine reported that he recorded an interview with a Navy petty officer who was on the deck of a submarine near where TWA 800 was hit by the missile. The petty officer told Irvine that he was "underneath TWA 800 when he saw a missile hit it and the 747 explode overhead."
This is fantastic
Okay we have the P3 flying so close to a 747 that the explosion hit it. FBI counting missiles on submarines, but not the PCU submarine that allegedly shot the plane down after completing an unspecified sea trial. (You know there are a lot of sea trials right?) SEAL teams planting evidence. And some goofball standing on the "deck" of a submarine directly under flight 800 like it's a WW2 sub running along on the surface or something.
This is amazing.
Well I do like the Seawolf angle. Of course it's the Seawolf. Most advanced and secret sub. Great for conspiracies. Not even commissioned yet and shooting down planes. You do know that it didn't into service until 2001 right? There were a lot of teething problems on the first of class most advanced sub ever built.
And I mean teething problems other than having a non-existent subsurface to air missile shooting down an airliner. No, like real ones. When my boat was parked next to it, we heard about the anechoic tiles peeling off at speeds I cannot mention during alpha trials.