(Nightfall...great book BTW.)
I remember seeing that film, too, the day of the incident. Where did it go?
Pretty good novel. The segue into 9/11 at the climax was a nice twist.
Ping.
I have to reply to every TWA800 video. Friend of the family was a crash site investigator for Boeing for many years. I asked him about TW800 - he said “missle”.
I can't tell you how I know this because it could affect someone's career. Maybe in a few years.
Everyone had VCRs then. Someone has to have it.
No one with half a brain ever believed the government bullcrap fantasy about a bad wire in a fuel cell.
A defect never seen before or since on a Boeing 747.
The government caused an untold amount of inconvenience and caused the airlines a lot of money and down time in a transparent attempt to lend credibility to their bogus cover story.
They knew then and know now that it was a terrorist missle attack that killed 230 people and dealt another severe blow to TWA already staggering under the mismanagement of Carl Icahn.
Back then people still had some faith in the federal government and the FBI but this incident marked a turning point.
Now the government and the FBI have less credibility than a used car salesman.
If they’ve got obscure tapes of the Joe Pyne Show, why don’t they have this? Surely someone must have snagged this on Betamax or VHS?
Hundreds of live witnesses recounted the same story of the missle strike.
Later, TWA800
(Nightfall...great book BTW.)
Great book. Tragic event. A friend of mine worked for TWA then and years after. He had access to the hanger where the plane’s recovered parts were stored and reassembled. He knew most of the people who worked on that project. I asked him about it. He said “We screwed up that day.” I asked if he meant TWA and he said “NO”. That’s all he would say.
Ping
Great book. Tragic event. A friend of mine worked for TWA then and years after. He had access to the hanger where the plane’s recovered parts were stored and reassembled. He knew most of the people who worked on that project. I asked him about it. He said “We screwed up that day.” I asked if he meant TWA and he said “NO”. That’s all he would say.
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after working with folks from that and other high profile recovery efforts I am of the belief that the dead should be left to their fates. What recovery does to the minds of the people who work it, is not worth the getting of the parts and mini-parts.
That said, I recall the tape and watched it on television.
Eyep...gubment coverup from the gitgo. Their year long “investigation” was pure unadulterated bullchit.....nose falls off aircraft...you lose CG...YOU LOSE CG plane WILL NOT CLIMB as any 15 yr old kid discovers when his freshly built RC plane noses in....
Can’t believe it’s over 20 years. Too many of my Long Island neighbors saw this and the story was all the same. A missile went up.....flight 800 came down. Even Jim Kalstrom convinced Rush that it was a wiring fault. So much BS during the Clinton regime.
I saw the video and watched the cover up, our government is absolutly corrupt.
Good video documentary on TWA800 is on youtube, it is called Silenced
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6umn4nsNN2E
Cashill’s book “TWA 800” does a great job of collecting the information around the tragedy and assembling into what looks like the real story - another time the FBI was manipulated by a president to cover up misdoing (beside Obama’s subversion to protect Hillary that is).....