And also a tug-boat captain hired to drag the ocean floor found a MANPADS booster canister (it’s a fast-burn fuel that acts to simply get the missile safely away from the operator before the main motor kicks in).
That story also went nowhere.
Then of course there were the 230 eye-witnesses, including a combat helicopter pilot who was airborne, nearby —just didn’t matter to our FBI (which a couple years earlier had burned down a church full of people, “they killed themselves”).
No....it was the center fuel-tank explosion, uh-huh.
The US Navy was so concerned about it they tried to replicate that explosion THOUSANDS of times, even dumping entire hibachis full of red briquettes directly into fuel-tanks:
NADA.
A MANPAD doesn’t have a warhead large enough to bring down a 747 in a catastrophic manner.
I don’t think Flight 800 was brought down by a missile fired by a terrorist. The strongest argument against that is that a terrorist wouldn’t position himself so far to the east of JFK Airport if that was his intent. Flight 800 was very high up in the sky at that point in its eastbound flight.
So...the article is completely wrong?
Note the recent equipment problems with the 787. They got grounded. People weren't sure about the battery, so all the planes stopped flying until some level of comfort was arrived at via a thorough investigation. And some might say, not enough was done.
TWA 800? Center fuel tank?? Any groundings? Any investigation? Nope. They kept flying. Because everyone knew that the center fuel tank played no role in the explosion.