[tubebender]

I have said it before, and I'll say it again: An on-board bomb (first shoe bomb?) or a surface to air missle brought TWA-800 down, not a spontaneous center fuel cell explosion.

I agree on the shoe bomb. There was just enough residue on the seats to be detected. During the trial of Reid, the shoe bomber, the prosecution blew up a 747 with a shoe bomb. I also said after 9/11 that the downing of Egyptian Air was a test for the hijackers and the person at the controls was not a crew mmber.

[glocker23]

You bring up an interesting point about the prosecution in the Reid case releasing the video of a shoe bomb exploding in a 747. The only problem is that the video was not shot specifically for this case, it was done years earlier.
So, why would the government run an experiment about shoe bombs on 747s without it ever happening before? God knows there are plenty of terrorist scenario's possible and of course they don't test them all just to see what would happen. So maybe that experiment was testing the very plausible hypothesis of a shoe bomb bringing down Flight 800... Ok, I'll take off my tin hat now:)