Consider the following:
1. The numerous witnesses from multiple points on the south shore of Long Island who saw something fired upward toward the aircraft.
2. The fact that the CIA and FBI were involved in the investigation from the start -- the CIA doesn't investigate "normal" airline crashes.
3. Wolf Blitzer's announcement on CNN that evening that Bill Clinton was going to address the nation about the crash of TWA 800 -- an address that was never made. A "normal" airline crash is not something that prompts a nationwide address by the president -- even a dysfunctional president with a pathological craving for media attention.
4. Have you ever seen so much attention and money provided to the families of an airline disaster as you saw in New York that night?
5. The number of airlines that have crashed in the last ten years under mysterious/unusual circumstances -- TWA 800, the SwissAir flight off the coast of Nova Scotia, that Egypt Air flight where the pilot or co-pilot allegedly crashed the plane, Flight 587 that crashed into the neighborhood in Queens, NY last year. Notice that these were all international flights, and that they all originated -- you guessed it -- from JFK Airport in New York City. I'd rather play in traffic than fly out of that freakin' place.
Make that FREEWAY traffic and I couldn't agree more.