Sounds familiar
TWA 800 August 96!
This is the most curious and I post rather than link from TWA 800 page because of the depth at which is was buried. It comes from an Aviaiton Sub committee meeting May 14, 1999.
"There have been 26 aircraft worldwide shot down by MANPADs--Man Portable Defense Systems; Flight 800 may have been the 27th. To prove that foreign MANPADs have been previously smuggled into the country, Donaldson recalled the curious case of the French-made Mistral, a Stinger-type missile that was found along a country road in Westminster, Maryland in October, 1994. The owner of a nearby convenience store had noticed it alongside the road; the Mistral was leaning on its side. "Somebody brought it here," said Donaldson. "Normally a Mistral would not be in this country except for some type of joint military test. Westminister, Maryland is an area that is constantly overflown by airlines from the major airports on the east coast. It's a great place to try to shoot down a plane. But it's strange the way the missile was just left at the edge of a road--in plain sight. As if someone wanted it to be found. This is just my speculation, but it's as if someone was giving our government a warning that they could take down a plane of ours at any time."
Of course the real question is, when did Bush OOPS! XLINTOON!! know and what did he do about it?
OCTOBER 1994!!!
"There have been 26 aircraft worldwide shot down by MANPADs--Man Portable Defense Systems; Flight 800 may have been the 27th. To prove that foreign MANPADs have been previously smuggled into the country, Donaldson recalled the curious case of the French-made Mistral, a Stinger-type missile that was found along a country road in Westminster, Maryland in October, 1994. The owner of a nearby convenience store had noticed it alongside the road; the Mistral was leaning on its side. "Somebody brought it here," said Donaldson. "Normally a Mistral would not be in this country except for some type of joint military test. Westminister, Maryland is an area that is constantly overflown by airlines from the major airports on the east coast. It's a great place to try to shoot down a plane....Just got back from my first airplane flight since 9-11.
Spent almost two hours on the taxiway while almost 40 planes waited for takeoff. Here's the kicker...the pilot had to turn off the engines and switch to the auxiliary to save fuel, and he told us. He also told us that a lot of East Coast Traffic was being diverted around a "weather event". Yet...we arrived cross country only 5 minutes late.
Hint...there was no weather event...planes from a certain 'high profile' airport were using our airspace to divert around some 'heavy duty' problem immediatly to the West.
Care to 'speculate' what that event was???