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What Really Happened to TWA Flight 800?
WorldNetDaily ^ | Jack Cashill & James Sanders

Posted on 07/17/2002 9:10:52 AM PDT by VectoRama

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To: thinden
bold off
21 posted on 07/17/2002 11:09:27 AM PDT by thinden
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To: hove
And the follow up question......why the coverup??

Unfortunately we'll never be allowed that info---Fortunately,the answer to this question is among the myriad of reasons #42 has such a hard time sleeping some nights.

22 posted on 07/17/2002 11:14:52 AM PDT by Pagey
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To: Pagey
Make that " MOST " nights
23 posted on 07/17/2002 11:15:54 AM PDT by Pagey
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To: VectoRama
Actual title: THE DOWNING OF TWA FLIGHT 800: 'Hey, Look at the fireworks'
24 posted on 07/17/2002 11:18:41 AM PDT by SMEDLEYBUTLER
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To: 1L
Some surface to air missles that can reach 14,000 feet incluse the Standard, sea sparrow, Hawk, Talos, Soviet manufactured SA-1, SA-2 and many many others. The 13,000 foot altitude is a possible shot for a Stinger even though it is beyond listed altitude range. it is routine for such weapons to have performance characteristics in excess of what is published and that is not far outside the envelope. I would suggest that modifications to a boat would make some other type of surface to air missle superior to a stinger for taking down an airliner.

I did not specify MANPADS I stated surface to aire missle. I believe the specs on the soviet SA-18 would make this shot well within the altitude range of that specific MANPADS but why do a shoulder launch when the mods to a boat would not be noticed?

25 posted on 07/17/2002 11:19:46 AM PDT by harpseal
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To: VectoRama
*Sigh*

You know, there are over 50 active "Flight 800" threads.

Do we REALLY need another one?

26 posted on 07/17/2002 11:20:24 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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To: Psycho_Bunny; rdavis84; Fred Mertz; Uncle Bill
Do we REALLY need another one?

sure, why not? prolly especially appropriate today.

most of the really substantial TWA 800 threads are in locked up in the archives anyway and not acessible to add new information/ replies.

p.s. I never thought james kallestrom would come up with such a cute handle.

27 posted on 07/17/2002 11:34:40 AM PDT by thinden
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To: thinden
was it the fear of having gummit contracts stopped or cancelled?
were they "rewarded" with new gummit contracts?

I recall at least one time when Boeing publicly embraced the missile explanation, the FAA shortly thereafter announced an air directive requiring inspections/warranty work on the 767 fleet on an unrelated system. I wondered at the time if it was motivated by an attempt to intimidate Boeing.

The purchase of the bankrupt carrier TWA by American resulted in all the employees at TWA getting pay raises and increased job security to the detriment of American Airlines. American announced today a $450,000,000 plus loss in the last quarter. I believe a substantial part of American's financial difficulty is a result of the extremely unwise merger. A merger with no business justification during a weakening economy,IMHO.

I have often wondered if the employees at TWA that know much about the truth about TWA 800 would have walked away quietly had the bankruptcy of their airline resulted in their unemployment. Fortunately for the TWA employees, we will never know.

28 posted on 07/17/2002 12:59:17 PM PDT by honway
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To: thinden
DALLAS (AP) -- American Airlines, the nation's largest airline, said Wednesday that it lost $495 million in the second quarter and blamed the result on low fares, which it has used to stimulate demand
29 posted on 07/17/2002 1:05:58 PM PDT by honway
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To: thinden
http://www.gsreport.com/articles/art000063.html

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In a bizarre new twist in the TWA 800 tragedy, the Boeing Corporation, maker of the 747 aircraft that exploded in mid-air off Long Island, New York on July 17, 1996, may be preparing to argue in court that a missile could have brought the plane down

30 posted on 07/17/2002 1:24:36 PM PDT by honway
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To: harpseal
Curious of your opinion of my contention that a MANPAD like a Stinger or similar IR homing missile would have been enough to take out an engine - homing on the exhaust plume - but unlikely to result in the kind of breakup which claimed flt 800.
31 posted on 07/17/2002 2:38:22 PM PDT by Dukie
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To: Dukie
I think a MANPADS like the Stinger or an SA-18 might just have been able to do it. The altitude was at the extreem range of a stinger but the target aircraft would not have been trying to evade. The most modern versions of the stinger do not have to close from behind the exhaus but would detonate the warhead close to the engine from the front. A red hot fragment through the center fuek tank would cause the destruction as seen on flight 800. In short it is plausible but in many ways a lucky shot. That would be understndable if it was a terrorist plot and they had a hard time converting meters to feet. Now if it was professionals that were launching I would rule out the Stinger although the SA-18 has an 8,000 meter range/ceiling which is more than sufficient. An analysis of fragments from Brookhaven would give us those warheads that matched the composition of the fragments found. We can eventually reconstruct everthing from that.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

32 posted on 07/17/2002 10:32:17 PM PDT by harpseal
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To: honway
a few choice defence contracts here, a quiet little contrived merger there......
33 posted on 07/18/2002 5:42:22 AM PDT by thinden
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To: thinden
... so the theory is ... it was kept quiet ... for reasons of not instilling fear and trepeditation in the american public? In order to prevent having adverse effects on the economy????????????

poor sentence structure this ..... sorry

34 posted on 07/18/2002 12:14:56 PM PDT by Countyline
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To: Countyline
In order to prevent having adverse effects on the economy????????????

more likely: In order to prevent having adverse effects on the election.

35 posted on 07/18/2002 12:29:35 PM PDT by thinden
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To: thinden
The Montauk conspiracy...

In a three part Series Ground Zero theorized that perhaps the downing of several aircraft in the Atlantic was the accidental result of electromagnetic technologies being tested in an area now known as the Block Island triangle. In the "Synchroncpiracy" series Ground Zero theorized that the air disaster corridor in the Atlantic where TWA flight 800, Swiss Air flight 111 John F. Kennedy Jr.'s Piper Saratoga light aircraft and the ill fated Egypt Air 990 crashed could be a place where magnetic interference occurs during tests of Brookhaven National Labs collider and possibly at Montauk. The Military says the Camp hero facility at Montauk is not being used but conspiracy watchdogs say that it continues to operate. While the press neatly reported simple explanations as to what happened to these aircraft we speculated the most outrageous theories that later were also theorized by another Scientist. Professor Elaine Scarry of Harvard developed a theory that is similar to the theory Ground Zero proposed in it’s Synchroncpiracy series. She believes that electromagnetic interference (EMI) and its associated High Intensity Radiated Field (HIRF) from military operations is what brought down TWA Flight 800 on July 17, 1996, and Swissair Flight 111 on Sept. 2, 1998. Her findings were published before Egypt Air 990 went down in the same area. Many theorists claim that a Missile downed TWA flight 800 and that terrorists were responsible. Brookhaven Labs coincidentally was mentioned in the London times after the initial reports of a ball of light raced up towards the jet before it went down. A CIA Data System II satellite positioned over the Brookhaven National Laboratory allegedly showed that a glowing object raced up to the TWA jet, passing it, then changing course and smashing into it. On the day of the Downing of the JFK Jr. Plane Ground Zero Reported that the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven had been test fired and ever since strange reports have come from that area. There have been reports of green flashes of light and pilots have been reporting seeing bright flashes that they have to look away from because of the intensity of the arc.

36 posted on 07/19/2002 3:40:43 AM PDT by rubbertramp
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To: harpseal; honway; thinden

The big circle is the RHioncollider. What are they up to?

37 posted on 07/21/2002 6:03:42 AM PDT by rubbertramp
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To: VectoRama
Keep these people's story alive VR. Someday they will be vindicated and the masses will know just how corrupt a government can become - even if they still don't care. BTW, the seat residue scam alone was enough to convince me.
38 posted on 07/21/2002 6:12:39 AM PDT by patriot_wes
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To: VectoRama
OK Boys & Goils, time to put on your thinking caps. I had this fight with a liberal "clinton is my fuhrer" a hole and he said "why would clinton cover it up? wouldn't he use this to get elected?" (See told you he was an ahole)
SO What is the answer?
39 posted on 07/21/2002 6:38:41 AM PDT by longfellow
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To: VectoRama
I favor of the 'little green gremlins' hypothesis.
40 posted on 07/21/2002 6:43:17 AM PDT by verity
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