[Asmodeus]

Bonafide experts, including the following, determined that the "shootdown" notion was nonsense long before the re-creation videos.

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TWA Flight 800 disaster

Kreindler & Kreindler represents the largest group of families of passengers killed in the July 1996 TWA Flight 800 disaster off Long Island, New York. At the outset, many believed that a bomb or missile caused the crash. But based on our own intensive hands-on investigation, including the examination of several 747 aircraft in the California desert, the firm quickly determined that the likely cause of the disaster was a mechanical malfunction leading to an explosion in the center fuel cell. Armed with this knowledge, we filed the first suit in October 1996 against the airline and manufacturer. Three of the firm's partners were appointed by the court to the Plaintiffs' Committee, including the post of Committee Chairman.

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FBI Chief Forensic Metallurgist William Tobin had also determined that there was no physical evidence to support the notion that Flight 800 was the victim of a missile or bomb by early or mid September 1997 and nine other expert metallurgist agreed.
Source,

The "Missile Witnesses" Myth

[JohnFiorentino]

"FBI Chief Forensic Metallurgist William Tobin had also determined that there was no physical evidence to support the notion that Flight 800 was the victim of a missile or bomb by early or mid September 1997"

NOW MY DEAR ASMODEUS, WE ALL KNOW TOBIN REACHED HIS "CONCLUSIONS" in Sept. 1996.....NOT 1997....Now don't we?