To put it a simpler way, the stall speed of an aircraft that has the middle section in front of the wings blasted out sideways, while the nose arcs in a path to the ocean, and the rest of the fuselage and wings tilt upwards at an extreme angle is.... INFINITY. Wouldn’t matter how fast or slow it was going, it was no longer ‘flying’ in the aeronautical meaning of the word.
There likely would have been an immediate pitch up and tumble in a ballistic arc, all while coming apart as airspeed lost its short battle with opposing forces.
But, no appreciable gain in altitude, at least not as seen by anything other than radar.
In that time frame, no one on the ground would have seen anything other than the explosion(s) when the missile hit. Not B747 at altitude suddenly climbing, just a BOOM!
The only humans capable of seeing said climb would be those who were at more or less the same altitude as TWA 800 was when the missile hit it, as the horizon would have given them the perspective to see/judge altitude change.
The only way to account for what the multiple witnesses observed from multiple vantage points is they all saw the streak of a launched missile climbing up to target for as long as it had fuel to burn, followed by a pause and then the explosion.
If the center fuel tank exploded, as shown in the video, it's only because a missile's warhead and/or it's hot engine gave it an irresistibly good reason to explode.
That's what the reconstruction pictures show and what the multiple witnesses say they saw and, as an added bonus, that explanation is blessed with the K.I.S.S. of Occam's Razor.
And...we are talking about the King of Coverups, Bill Clinton, in a re-election campaign, after all, so you almost have to assume then, and especially so now, that the CIA video is BS.
Then and now, the question is the same: Who you gonna believe? Bill Clinton or the witnesses' lyin' eyes?
Believe what you will, but my mind's made up:
Missile went up, TWA 800 came down and LOTS of people saw it happen.
To put it a simpler way, the stall speed of an aircraft that has the middle section in front of the wings blasted out sideways, while the nose arcs in a path to the ocean, and the rest of the fuselage and wings tilt upwards at an extreme angle is.... INFINITY. Wouldn’t matter how fast or slow it was going, it was no longer ‘flying’ in the aeronautical meaning of the word.
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Then show your work mathematically.