From the article:
“One of the former investigators who signed the petition, Hank Hughes, was in charge of reconstructing the interior of the aircraft cabin for NTSB from debris recovered from the ocean. Hughes said the board “completely discounted” the accounts of more than 200 witnesses who say they saw a streak of light heading toward the plane before it broke apart.
Standing in the rain outside the NTSB briefing, Hughes also said the plane’s reconstructed fuselage — which reporters were allowed to view after the briefing — has holes consistent with what would be expected from missile shrapnel. Reporters weren’t able to see the holes, he said, because they were on the opposite side of the reconstructed plane, facing away from the board’s briefing area.
Hughes offered no explanation why his former colleagues would deliberately ignore important evidence.
“As far as motivation, who did what and why, we didn’t get into that,” he said. “I don’t know.”
Sooooo, 200+ witnesses didn’t see what they saw. Still.
They couldn't walk around to the other side?