Neither he nor Jennings picked up on it.
Kerry, however, seemed to be sending a message when he, very studiedly, referred to TW800 as a "bombing". At the time, it was early in the 2004 Dem primary process and I got the impression he was warning the Clintons to end their sub rosa support for Dean. Again, the interviewer (whoever he was) didn't pick up on the reference.
For my own part, I was in the Green room of a Dallas studio and Fox (I believe it was) was showing radom ootage of the recovery process.
All of a sude, I saw a section of fuselage retreived by the crane and deposited on the adjacent barge. I was first exposed to an outside view -- and there was a smooth oval hole about the diameter of a telephone pole immediately below the window line.
As the fuselage part pivoted on the cable as it was placed on the barge, I got an insie view. The metal skin around the hole displayed a ragged skirt. Exactly the kind of damage that a projectile would've caused.
I've seen no other remarks concerning this particular piece of fuselage, nor does it appear in any of the photographs of the reconstruction.
I know that a missile isn't supposed to penetrate its target, but is supposed to explode in close proximity. But I saw what I saw.
If it was a test against a drone it could have been a dummy warhead. Which would mean the missile did a direct hit through the body of the plane and caused a catastrophic structural collapse, probably broke it in half. The article says there wasn't a fireball until it feel to 7500 feet. What a nightmare.