Posted on 06/07/2016 5:18:37 PM PDT by Kaslin
On the pleasant summer evening of July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 left JFK Airport in New York bound for Paris. Twelve minutes after takeoff, about ten miles south of the popular south shore of Long Island, at least two surface-to-air missiles blew the 747 out of the sky, killing all 230 people on board.
I write the above with 100 percent confidence. I owe that confidence to the efforts of a small corps of committed individuals -- eyewitnesses, independent researchers, whistleblowers from within the investigation, and family members who have turned their grief into action. In attempting to get at the truth, at least three of these people were arrested, several others were thrown off the TWA 800 investigation, and every one of them was ridiculed.
In TWA 800: The Crash, The Cover-Up, The Conspiracy (Regnery: July 5), I get to tell their story, an epic one. What makes the story so compelling is that these everyday citizens have struggled against a Goliath that could not have been more powerful. The opposition includes, among other powers, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the FBI, and the CIA.
In a totalitarian country, authorities can suppress information at will. In America, the media have to collaborate in that suppression, and this they did, closing their eyes to the obvious and accepting without evidence the government’s unproven theory of a spontaneous fuel tank explosion.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I remember someone going to jail for getting a piece of the upholstery and testing to find yes residue. Did he write a book?
I recall something, that seems to have ?disappeared — someone was trying to give out information saying he was on a US submarine — I think secret, or its technology was, that BY MISTAKE fired missle/s from under the water near by. Like unknown that such tech was able to do that.
It may be that he was *assigned* to the sub but was off that night, and knew about its ability.
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For structural reasons, wing tanks are filled first, and then any remaining fuel needed for a particular flight is put into the CWT. The volume of the 747-131’s CWT, by all standards, is large. It has a Jet A fuel capacity of 86,363 pounds (12,890 gallons). Based on the length of TWA’s flight to Paris, fuel in the center wing tank was not required. As with all transport airplanes, even this “empty” tank still contains a small amount of unusable fuel, estimated at around 50 gallons, and resides in small “pockets” and trapped areas on the lower tank surface.
http://lessonslearned.faa.gov/ll_main.cfm?TabID=3&LLID=21&LLTypeID=2
OH! You posted while I was composing mine — and big surprise after I did the post and then read what you said about the sub !
Yes, people knew — and yes, people didn’t talk.
Of course, some did, and some suffered for it.
GO TRUMP ?! Let’s hear all about it!
Wow. Not at the moment, but I’ll craft something tomorrow.
Thank you.
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The NTSB report is also available:
http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR0003.pdf
We had our very own FReeper running interference - insisting it was the CFT.
_Jim, if I remember correctly.
He’s also the one who contributed valuable disinformation on each and every article about the OKC Federal Building bombing posted on FR, IIRC.
Cashill is excellent
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Nightfall is brutally can’t-put-it-down reading. A must read
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They're all buried in the desert outside Terlingua.
Some war porn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPxM5y-t4FA&t=21s
We had some interesting discussions about this incident here.
I don’t have a strong opinion either way, just a tendency to believe the eyewitnesses. But who would benefit from it being shot down?
I had heard that the U.S. Navy had been in the area with subs that were preforming war games and shot it down by accident.
The cover up is to absolve the U.S> gub mint from the lawsuits that would result.
Yes I have a few questions.
Why didn’t either of the two Los Angeles class attack subs I was on get those missiles? I was in the navy at the time when TWA 800 went down through the end of 2000. We didn’t have anything that could shoot down aircraft.
We did have Tomahawks and on one of those boats, we were selected to train for nuclear weapons, which may or may not have been onboard. That of course is not something I can discuss.
And no, that antiaircraft missile could not be that big of a secret the crew wouldn’t know about it. Particularly if they wanted it launched. The crew would have to be trained.
Second question: How does a submerged submarine track an aircraft? Just launch the missile and don’t worry about what it acquires once it breaches the surface? Or via satellite/radio comms at periscope depth from another vessel? (If so, the conspiracy just got a bit bigger.)
Third question: How do you keep the crew quiet? There are no secrets on a submarine. There is no way in hell you could keep enlisted crew members quiet. And there is no way a small group of loyal officers could do this on their own.
Everyone on the boat knows when a torpedo is launched. It shudders. Plus there is no way to hide the fact that a missile canister suddenly went missing. Enlisted personnel handle the weapons, sonar, fire control, navigation, etc. Can’t send them all back to their racks. Simply no way to keep this a secret.
They’d all know where they were and what time the missile was launched. Once they realized TWA 800 went down, they would put it all together, and there’s no way in hell the navy would be able to keep the enlisted crew quiet.
For the record, I don’t buy the official story. Neither did my father who was an aircraft maintenance manager at JFK at the time. His specialty was 747s and 767s. He worked as a mechanic on the 747-100 when they first launched, made his way up as a supervisor then manager and spent a good deal of time at Boeing studying the 747. He did not believe the official explanation of TWA 800.
You think some ship accidentally killed over 200 people and not one sailor would come forward after that? What sort of animals do you think are the navy?
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