Posted on 04/13/2011 9:04:54 PM PDT by patriotgal1787
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During an email conversation with one of my radio show listeners -- retired airline pilot JetDriver2 -- the topic of the DC-10 aircraft came up then quickly shifted over to TWA 800 and its mysterious plunge from the sky over Long Island. The conversation went from there. With his permission I have reprinted it here.
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TWA was acquired by American two months after my retirement in Nov 2000. We never recovered from the July 1996 shoot-down of TWA 800 described by Jack Cashill in his book “First Strike”. This was a massive cover-up (for which I have personal evidence) ordered by Bill Clinton, who also ordered the assassination of Ron Brown described in another Cashill book “Ron Brown’s Body” which I recently read.
Yes TWA 800 was absolutely shot down. The FAA knows it and the FBI knows it. There was explosive residue on the seat cushions and a hole in the reconstructed fuselage. Many pieces of the wreckage were confiscated by the FBI and never seen again, including pieces identified by TWA volunteers working in the hangar at Calverton as showing missile damage.
There is no way that jet fuel fumes in an empty center fuel tank could have blown up that plane. Jet fuel is not volatile and is very difficult to ignite, nor was there enough energy in the residual fuel in the center tank to produce an explosion of that magnitude. There is testimony on this point by scientists.
There is an audiotape of an ANG helicopter pilot who was a former Navy Search and Rescue pilot in Vietnam, and who is also an attorney on Long Island. He was shooting a practice approach in the direction of the TWA 800 explosion. He testified that he saw the missile trail and he saw the explosion – it was an ordnance explosion, not a fuel explosion. This guy is familiar with anti-aircraft missiles and with military ordnance. Read the entire piece at The Radio Patriot.
The more emotional BS they can post, the more fools come to their sites.
It's all about $, and moving them from our pockets to theirs.
Spot on.
“He said it was a missile. Hell, that convinces me! Where or where did all the rest of us ever miss all that convincing evidence!!!!!!!!!!”
Just relaying what I was told.
You lawyers think you're God.
I have a bridge in Brooklyn I could sell you if ...........
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God forbid a 27-year lawyer might ever be duped by facts. No siree. No one’s getting anything over on you. I’m almost as impressed with you as you are with yourself.
Even Thomas doubted it was Jesus when he saw him with his own eyes. Get over yourself. You’re nothing new. History’s full of old deck hands...
There is nothing more unreliable than people on the ground describing what they see happening in the sky, especially when what's happening is MILES from where they're located.
"What's your interest in the cover up?"
Of course, it's a "cover up". It would be the biggest cover-up since the moon landings were faked, or something.
Anyone who thinks that the federal government, to include a variety of elements of the US military and most of the 2nd Fleet, can "cover up" anything, let alone something as big as this, really has NOT been paying attention to the incompetence of our government for the last 50-years.
“I have a bridge in Brooklyn I could sell you if ...........”
The guy did work for Boeing and he traveled the country inspecting crash sites. He was the father of a friend of mine.
I thought that plane was brought down when obamas birth certificate was sucked into one of the engines....
Well, if you haven't heard of it, it must mean that it's entirely impossible, or something.
Gee, I wonder why it's SOP for the US military to have inerting systems on all its combat aircraft and many logistical aircraft?
Aircraft engineers on commercial aircraft have suggested such systems on passengers aircraft YEARS before this tragedy. Why wasn't it required? Too expensive - the cost-benefit math didn't make sense.
It still doesn't make sense, but that doesn't mean there isn't a danger.
The nutters all magically and inexplicably switched from “The Navy shot it down” after 9/11 to “terrorists shot it down.”
I guess you never heard of the Warren Commission.
i read the book
what makes no sense is there have been millions of those flights and only one went down like that.
a cover up seems plausible.
Interesting revisit of an obvious missle-shootdown of TWA 800
I have not paid much attention to the shoot-down in recent years....but when you have 100s of witnesses who saw something hit that plane...not all those witnesses are liars
No way...no way all of them are lying
Scary is that you have people who will defend the government line, at all costs. Even scarier is that the “Missle-Deniers” are backing the Clinton Admin version of events.
Two Boeing 737s have had accidental center fuel tank explosions (both were on the ground at the time).
If failure modes of commercial aircraft were common, tens of thousands of people would be dying in airline accident every year.
It's so safe that when there's an accident it involves weird combinations of unusual circumstances.
The US Navy story is essentially preposterous. However, the official story has always left me skeptical.
The NTSB had come out and said it was a fuel leak that was ignited by the heat of the engines that caused the explosion. The report stated that a stream of fuel was ignited far back of the plane and raced up to blow the tanks. That made it look like a missile was coming up from the rear.
Finally, when has the Navy ever conducted missile firings off Long Island??? Is there a test range set up below the flight path of planes flying to Europe from JFK???
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