Posted on 11/19/2002 4:41:39 AM PST by canalabamian
If you were to have 100-200 witnesses describing what they saw in detail on the stand, with no motive to lie, a jury would probably only take 5 minutes to render a unanimous verdict that a missile was used -- especially when you compare their credibility to that laughable CIA cartoon using "alien physics."
And one thing strange about it is that it is confirmed that one of the names on the passenger list was Mohammad Ferrat, from Algeria. Ferrat was a friend of Ron Brown's, and was supposed to be on Brown's ill-fated flight, but scrubbed in the last minute. What an unlucky guy! That is a coincidence that keeps nagging at me, since I don't tend to be a wild-eyed coincidence theorist.
I can certainly accept that, but what I found most compelling about these reports was that these eyewitnesses were generally inconsistent in one respect -- they could not agree on the exact origin and trajectory of the "missile" they claimed they saw. What's more interesting is that their recollections of this information were not scattered all over the place but fit into two fairly well-defined origins and trajectories. This is what led many to believe that two different missiles were fired, but it me to believe that it could have involved both a missile and a target drone of some sort.
When such reports of a terrorists strike were rampant, it made sense that the President, no matter how dispicable the excuse of a man, would seek to calm the fears of the general public - unless the evidence changes the focus to catastrophic failure of the AC.
I don't recall a single mention of any kind of nationwide address in any of the other suspicious crashed I mentioned (particularly the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990, in which the official report identifies a suicidal pilot as the cause).
Tort settlements are increasingly huge. That's one reason why the cost of a general aviation aircraft is so unreasonably expensive, many times four to five times the cost of a comparable road vehicle.
That might explain why TWA would go ouot of their way to help the families, but not the government. I also seem to remember that tort settlements in the case of Flight 800 could not be "huge" because they would be limited by a maritime treaty that limits the liability of international carriers.
The number of airline TO's & TD's in NYC is astounding, and with the high level of traffic comes the fact that more high-cycle, high-time airframes converge in one area. These AC are on "quick" turn-around schedules creating stress on personnel and equipment which could lead to neglect and error, thus exposing the flying public to dangerous oversights which could lead to crashes or other serious reportable incidents.
The second part of my point about those mysterious crashes that I forgot to mention was that the very "mysterious" nature of them is what makes them so suspicious. When that ValueJet plane crashed in the Everglades a few years ago, there wasn't a single piece of wreckage recovered that was larger than a dime. And yet they knew the cause of that crash within 48 hours. But a nearly-intact wreckage of Flight 800 was assembled in a hangar on Long Island for months, and the best they could do was come up with a "fuel-tank explosion" that couldn't even be replicated?
This dude ain't buying that crap.
Tell that to the Secret Service agents sent to Ft. Bliss, Texas to train to operate the Stinger missile system after a stolen Cessna was crashed on the South Lawn of the white House in September, 1994.
-archy-/-
It is not the altitude where TWA800 was, but the altitude where it would normally be, that a terrorist would use to select an attack position.
TWA800 would normally have been at or above 19000 feet when it flew past the Hamptons. This is well above the altitude capability of any shoulder fired missile.
Again I suggest people read TWA 800 "It wasn't terrorists. It couldn't have been."
ML/NJ
The only thing that surprises me about this article is that worldnet daily somehow fails to mention how the PRC is involved as they usually like to do a weekly hit piece on the PRC. They could have easily said "terrorist funding for shootdown from PRC" or "PRC provided logistical support for shootdown" or "PRC did (fill in the blank) to aid terrorists in shootdown".
This is the truth. These are the facts. I'm sick of reading constant speculation that goes in the wrong direction. From my perspective, this is garbage....unless the terrorists had a missile and were on the ground.
You are remembering this correctly. It was issued when Navy divers were beginning to bring up pieces that could have shown the entry point of a missile. Only one side of that reconstructed plane was ever shown.
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