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I've read Aviation Week for over 40 years and know expert talk when I hear it, and he's the expert not Mr. Hall who was Algore's campaign finance person.

He conducted experiments with JP-4 on his barbeque grill to try and ignite the fuel vapors.

I'll admit that I'm coming to the debate very late in the game. Early posts by the likes of Michael Rivero made me discount everything that was being said about any aircraft accident here on FR. So, you may have answered this before, but if this guy was an "expert" why was he doing experiments on his grill at home?

When you have the CIA producing cartoons of an accident that seem to defy the laws of physics then, maybe, simpler demonstrations are required. The specifications for petroleum products are available and he could have just referred to them but then only a knowledgeable engineer would have understood the volatility, flashpoint and ignition requirements that would cause the fuel to burn.

NASA conducted a test at White Sands where a B-707 was propelled into iron stakes which ripped open its wings and then the whole airframe struck a berm. They knew that most people who survived the crash usually succumbed to the resulting fire. they filmed this thing from many angles and drew significant results. I saw Kallstrom on a talk show, possibly O'Reilly, state categorically that the diesel fuel in the center fuel tank exploded!

The FBI interferred in every way to fowl up this investigation. So who do you believe? Boeing, The Aviation Mechanics Union, NASA, or the CIA and Kalstrom who may have been covering the whole thing up because of 1996 being an election year and nobody in the White House wanted to explain the "heat".

As the roots of 911 are being investigated there was too much going on in '96 that point to a mega policy failure by the Clinton Administration. Commander Donaldson reported on a Maryland State Police report of an abandoned French Man Portable Antiaircraft weapon system found on a rural road. How did it get there? Did the French leave it behind? Did a local order it from E-Bay? This system was larger then a shoulder fired version and had the range to bring down Flight 800. Why was it never reported? Go to the TWA 800 site and see a picture of this weapon and then know that other commercial aircraft have been brought down by terrorists. what's the odds?