It has always been my belief that the Clintons covered up the real reason it was destroyed to keep from having to explain it during an election year. Just like Benghazi....................
Worked then so Hilly said lets dust off the old playbook and run it again..
It was my thought at the time that some of those Stinger missiles had fallen into the hands of a terrorist cell and they brought it down.
I can see why the Clintons would want to hide that little fact, because it would have shut down all international air travel just like 9/11 eventually did. Plus the US would have been liable for millions of dollars in liability lawsuits, which would mean a ‘discovery’ process that would have been devastating to them personally and politically.
George Stephanopolous ‘accidentally’ let a Freudian slip come out at that time a little while later and referred to it as a ‘terrorist’ incident......................