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TWA 800: The Great Untold Story of Our Time
American Thinker ^ | June 7, 2016 | Jack Cashill

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: cashill; coverup; foilwatch; jihadinamerica; twa800; twaflight800
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To: Kaslin

I live on Long Island about 15 miles from where TWA800 went down. I know some of the LEO who were involved and when I spoke with them about it they all said the same thing “shot down”.

For a fictional - but - kinda true version of the story, read Nelson Demille’s “Nightfall”


21 posted on 06/07/2016 5:44:20 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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To: Kaslin

Was the passenger list ever made public? Was this plane targeted specifically or was it simply a plane that happened to be nearby when they were ready to fire?


22 posted on 06/07/2016 5:46:11 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( ))))
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To: GreenLanternCorps
From where? The aircraft was too high for a shoulder fired missile.

According to reports, the plane was at 16,000 feet when it exploded about 12 minutes into the flight.

The FIM-92 Stinger has a range of 16,000 to 25,000 feet depending on what source you read. So why do you rule out a shoulder fired missile.

23 posted on 06/07/2016 5:46:21 PM PDT by kabar
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To: politicianslie

We all knew. The lies were so phony. GO TRUMP.


24 posted on 06/07/2016 5:48:31 PM PDT by WENDLE (GO TRUMP!)
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To: Kaslin

I thought it was odd at the time, that it was right after the TWA 800 crash, that they started requiring us to show ID at airports. I always wondered if there was some connection.


25 posted on 06/07/2016 5:48:47 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Kaslin

I remember that night, I heard people that were out on the water and they stated they saw vapor trails and said it went right to that plane.


26 posted on 06/07/2016 5:49:13 PM PDT by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: combat_boots

Please, when and where?


27 posted on 06/07/2016 5:49:33 PM PDT by chronicles
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To: Kipp

I sure remember Steffy saying this. I dropped my coke when he said it.


28 posted on 06/07/2016 5:50:26 PM PDT by Himyar (Sessions: the only real man in D.C.)
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To: Two Kids' Dad
Was the passenger list ever made public?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/twa800/list01.htm

29 posted on 06/07/2016 5:51:58 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: chronicles

I saw it live. It was an interview. Long ago now.


30 posted on 06/07/2016 5:52:23 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: akalinin
Two words: Jamie Gorelick.

That is the harridan responsible for the intelligence wall that led to 9/11. She was eyeball deep in the TWA800 cover up and was a pig at the trough working at Fannie Mae, cashing in just before Housing crisis.

She is one person who deserves to be jail for the remainder of her miserable life. Not only does she have blood on her hands, she's at least partly responsible for one of the greatest losses of wealth in history.

31 posted on 06/07/2016 5:52:51 PM PDT by Malsua
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To: Kaslin

This again? Is someone hoping the govt is just going to open up and admit wrondoing? Har!


32 posted on 06/07/2016 5:52:53 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (https://thepurginglutheran.wordpress.com/)
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To: Kaslin

Bump for Later


33 posted on 06/07/2016 5:53:56 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: Kipp

I saw Stephanopoulos say that live. At the time, I almost came out of my chair with disbelief that he had let it slip.


34 posted on 06/07/2016 5:55:22 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: Kipp

Yes, just like Georgie Porgie “correcting” Obambi re his “Muslim faith”


35 posted on 06/07/2016 5:55:26 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (#BoycottTarget #BoycottRoss Women & children hurt the most)
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To: akalinin
"Two words: Jamie Gorelick."

OMG, this and the Gorelick wall, and Fannie and Freddie during it's juicing days which lead to the CMO meltdown in 08'. Can anyone else think of her other vaulted positions during the Clinton years?

36 posted on 06/07/2016 5:55:31 PM PDT by taildragger (Not my Monkey, not my Circus...)
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To: WENDLE
Conspiracy people need a reason for their existence. This has been debunked by many in the aviation industry not associated with the government.

NTSB Reporter photo NYSBReporterTWA80031JUL2013001_zps9d4cc6d9.jpg > photo NTSBReporterTWA800Page2001_zps9931206d.jpg

Read also: http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a9158/3-reasons-to-doubt-the-twa-flight-800-conspiracy-theory-15629315/

And

https://www.thestreet.com/story/11956914/1/why-the-twa-flight-800-conspiracy-theorists-are-wrong.html

37 posted on 06/07/2016 5:57:14 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: chronicles
I was on board a TWA800 flight about a year before the crash.

I have my TW0800 19MAR96 boarding pass tacked to my office wall. I'm looking at it now. I have no idea whether it went on to Tel Aviv after we landed in Paris.

38 posted on 06/07/2016 6:00:09 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: Busko
I heard people that were out on the water and they stated they saw vapor trails and said it went right to that plane.

I believe these eyewitnesses.

39 posted on 06/07/2016 6:02:52 PM PDT by Canedawg (Make America Great Again)
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To: GreenLanternCorps

The only possible explanation was that an exercise involving a target drone hit the plane. There was no explosive residue found, only “pass through”-—although that certainly wasn’t conclusive.

A Freeper whose name I forget, an aviation specialist, went through the details including photos at great length years ago. He debunked any missile strike. But even for those who still claim it was a missile, as you correctly say, 800 was too high for a Stinger. Only a Navy Standard missile could have hit it-—but 800 would have been utterly shattered. Instead, there is pretty good evidence that a door developed some sort of bulge, that this in turn led to a fuel line interaction with a spark.

But it’s been years since we went over all these things. All I remember is the one key piece of evidence, namely there was no explosive residue anywhere, only a minute trace of what could have been “pass through” residue, as if a missile “got away” from the Navy and went right through 800 without exploding.


40 posted on 06/07/2016 6:04:48 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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