[timestax]

Good luck...you will NEVER get FBI to reopen the case. Too many lies!

[stands2reason]

bttt

[TXnMA]

Piezoelectric ceramics could be used in the igniter/triggering mechanism for a shoulder-fired missile -- but I have no info that such an actual application exists.

Titanate-zirconates used as piezolectric sensors/generators ase pure ceramics (oxides -- as indicated by the '-ate' suffix). They most certainly are not ceramic metal composites.

Don't know how this impacts your theory -- unless you were were trying to make the logic leap that the presence of ceramic/metal composites indicates the presence of a piezoelectrically fired or fuzed missile. In that case, your theory falls apart. Ceramic/metal composites and piezoelectric ceramics are totally different animals.

[ctnoell]

And all of those eyewitness accounts "of seeing flaming missile streaking upward toward the aircraft prior to explosion" were quickly swept under the rug. Al-Qaeda? Not that far-fetched. I had always wondered with all of those Stinger missiles in Afghan hands and the break-away Soviet republics selling former Soviet submarines to Iran around that same time period. I hate to sound like Barbra Streisand, but maybe we have a cover-up? I wouldn't put it past Clinton to do exactly that, with the '96 election looming only months after the crash.

[thatdewd]

Does anybody remember the news story about the young palestinian kid that told his teacher not to fly that month because he heard the grownups at the mosque saying a plane would crash then?. I later heard another story say it was an urban legend, but a while back I read a followup story (which I thought I bookmarked, but didnt) that said it wasn't and the case was still open. Anybody have any links on that? (or did the second reporter need tinfoil?)

[Demidog]

Have you cross-referenced your findings with Janes? Are there any American military missles used in the AEGIS system which use CMC's?

[glock rocks]

maybe the copilot pushed the rudder controls too hard and the center tank exploded. yah, that's it.

you doubting thomases just need to watch the cia cartoon again. the koolaid is black cherry. mmmmmm.

[Asmodeus]

"John Fiorentino--Author--Record Producer--Independent researcher & Paralegal Investigator. Author of forthcoming book on the assassination of President Kennedy."

Are you contending that "the pellets" came from a missile - or a bomb?

Donaldson Brothers TWA800 forum
From: John Fiorentino - 14 January 2001
As the author of a forthcoming book on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and in my occupation as a Paralegal, having investigated many "conspiracy" theories, it would seem the first step would be to prove conclusively that TWA Flight 800 was IN FACT downed by a missile or missiles. [emphasis yours]

Yahoo TWA800 forum
From: John Fiorentino - 28 May 2001
Subject: Seeking comments on this story
FBI questions crash victims' families about mysterious luggage tag
October 27, 1996 NEW YORK (CNN) -- Investigators probing the crash of TWA Flight 800 want to know more about a man named William Kabofovic, whose name was not on the passenger list but did turn up on a piece of luggage in the wreckage.

Yahoo TWA800 forum - April 12, 2002
From: John Fiorentino
Subject: Re: [twa800] Kabofovic revisited
[excerpt][quote]
Most here are convinced a "missile" did the dirty deed. I'm not, not yet at least. The initial assessment was "bomb". I thought so to. I still do.
[end quote]

(a) If you still contend that, please provide us all with the reference source URL's you are relying on.
(b) If you don't still contend that, please explain why and provide us all with the reference source URL's that caused you to change your mind.

[timestax]

bump for the truth!!

[eno_]

You da man!

The cermaic pellets are an incontrovertable fact. They were recovered from bodies of victims, and were analyzed by a lab that published their results. This is all part of the public record, and is the closest thing I have seen to a smoking gun.

As you said, ceramics were used in some jet engines, but not in 747s of that vintage, and an unlikely source of shrapnel in victims in any case.

My guess is that these are from the joints in a continuous-rod SAM warhead.

[BluH2o]

You're beating a dead horse here ... sort of like asking an NFL official to overturn a bad call. Even with instant replay ...

[goody2shooz]

Ping

[timestax]

None of the gubment cheerleaders ever offer a viable alternative to a missile strike!!Never have!