Posted on 07/17/2002 9:10:52 AM PDT by VectoRama
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.
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?
You know, there are over 50 active "Flight 800" threads.
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.
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.
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
Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
poor sentence structure this ..... sorry
more likely: In order to prevent having adverse effects on the election.
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 its 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.
The big circle is the RHioncollider. What are they up to?
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