Still, this is where the argument goes awry. They’ll argue it couldn’t have been the Navy, therefor it wasn’t a missile. Then, it wasn’t a manpad... therefor it wasn’t a missile.
They hope people will bog down and not notice the logical sleight of hand.
Its good to keep it simple. I don’t know who fired what kind of missile. Well over a hundred people saw a missile, including people whose experience and background was such that they would know what they saw. That’s it. What kind, and who fired it, we may never know because no one wanted to know.
Since the Navy was there scouring the area, its probably that some key people knew what they were looking for, but its also pretty sure that they were not interviewed by FBI. I assume they were there because there was information that something was going to happen, but even to make that assumption is to get off onto a tangent. Witnesses didn’t see who fired the missile, or identify what kind of missile. But they agreed it was a missile.
And if it was a test missile that just blundered into the plane, still it was a tragedy.