Elmer, Elmer...
Why are you trying to cloud the issue (no pun intended) by saying we are trying to prove the "second smoke cloud" notion. I didn't even know a second smoke cloud theory was ever proposed, until you brought it up!!!
I am not talking about a second smoke cloud: The question is very simple, and calls for a simple answer.
Did Faret and Wendell report THE smoke cloud they describe in their personally prepared witness statement as moving NNW?
Is this cloud movement reported by Faret and Wendell in a direction not consistent with the upper air wind data the NTSB published in the final report?
A: I'd have to say yes. If it wasn't directly over it was a little to the NW, a good viewing angle. As soon as we saw the explosion we didn't take our eyes off of it.
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Witnesses Faret & Wendell ask Richard Hirsch why he's trying to "spread dis-information" about their report.
From: Sven Faret
Date: Saturday, June 26, 1999 11:59 AM
Rich.
You are discounting the fact that we flew around it, avoiding a flight through it. Any other here-say, is just that. over 3000 hours experience can't be all bunk. You obviously have none. We wonder why you try to spread dis-information on the subject. It's getting old.
... SF & KW [emphasis added]