TWA 800 Opinion

[ultrarunner]

Big time cover up, just like Oak city in my opinion.

Don't even get me started on that one!

 

[eagleb2skipper]

Just read "Night Fall" by Nelson DeMille- fiction, but gets you thinking 'bout this one...

 

[Ben Dover]

Dear friends & family of TWA 800 victims,

The US government has never been successful at keeping a conspiracy quiet.

Sincerely,
John F. Kennedy

 

[mach zero]

I was jumpseating on a 757 a couple of years after TWA 800 splashed. This particular 757 had two cockpit jumpseats and occupying the other one was a NY ARTCC Supervisor. I asked her "So what happened to TWA 800?" She told me that she was working that night and was on the team that pulled the radar tapes. In the tape analysis, they discoved a small primary target that merged with TWA 800. She stated the next day the FBI showed up and took all of their tapes away and told them they would be handling everything from there on out.

 

[EagleRJ]

From a person related to one of the TWAers on that flight. Raytheon was testing a prototype surface to air interceptor missile. The Navy had Scud from the first Iraq War that they used as a target drone. The new missile's primary tracking system failed and it reverted to heat seeking. The closest heat source: 800.

Possible, but unlikely. Just like the NTSB's official story.

Military live-fire exercises and tests are conducted inside protected airspace, and whenever a test article has enough range to leave the test area, there are provisions for flight termination (range safety package or fighter escort). Any kind of long-range interceptor would have been tested somewhere quiet like the South Pacific, not on the Eastern seaboard.

 

[AAflyer]

I was jumpseating on a 757 a couple of years after TWA 800 splashed. This particular 757 had two cockpit jumpseats and occupying the other one was a NY ARTCC Supervisor. I asked her "So what happened to TWA 800?" She told me that she was working that night and was on the team that pulled the radar tapes. In the tape analysis, they discoved a small primary target that merged with TWA 800. She stated the next day the FBI showed up and took all of their tapes away and told them they would be handling everything from there on out.

I flew with a TWA captain that was on the ALPA investigation team. He said there were times when things were brought into the hangar at night, but were gone in the morning.

AAflyer

 

[Bavarian Chef]

Why is it all those who believe in a conspiracy have no military time?

 

[Roger Murdoch]

Actually they were able to reproduce it just on a smaller scale. If you ever watch National Geographic's " Seconds From Disaster" program about TWA 800 then you will see what I'm talking about. Also there was a Boeing 737 that had the center fuel tank explode while sitting on the groung somewhere in Asia years earlier. They believe the same thing occurred.

 

[Mach8Forest]

Normally I would believe the mechanical theory. However, the primary radar returns headed directly for 800 and then it went down. I also watched a TV special that soaked similiar material found on seats (plastic explosive) in salt water for 24 hours. Then they tried to get the detector to register it and it failed. Could their be enough Bomb residue left on the seats that was used for training to go months of revenue flying, Blow up 2 miles in the air, and then soak in salt water for 2 days and still register? I don't believe it posible.
Mach8Forest

 

[poppi]

"Also there was a Boeing 737 that had the center fuel tank explode while sitting on the groung somewhere in Asia years earlier."

Here is a link . There was a link a while back in mpeg format of the actual occurrence
http://avstop.com/news/Thai.html