a TWA plane popped after leaving NY in '96.
Planes just don't do that, these days. There was
some proof at the time, from eye-witnesses,
that I saw on tv, that there was a missile shot
at the plane.
I wonder if it was domestic services?
checkit: FoxNews.com
Investigators
want missile theory probed in '96 TWA Flight 800 crash
Published
June 19, 2013
Reaction to new claims about TWA Flight
800 crash
Was TWA Flight 800 crash actually
caused by missile...
Documentary challenges cause of TWA
Flight 800 crash
A
handful of aviation experts, including a number of investigators who were part
of the original probe of TWA Flight 800, have come forward in a new documentary
to say evidence points to a missile as the cause of the crash off the coast of
Long Island 17 years ago.
The
New York-to-Paris flight crashed July 17, 1996, just minutes after takeoff from
JFK Airport, killing all 230 people aboard. In the weeks that followed, the
plane was reassembled in a hangar from parts retrieved from the sea. But the
cause of the crash was not identified immediately, and after authorities said
the crash was caused by static
electricity ignited fuel fumes, many skeptics cast doubt on the theory.
Adding to the controversy were multiple eyewitness accounts of a fireball going
up from the ground and hitting the plane before it went down, accounts which
the FBI dismissed at the time.
“It’s obvious that the truth was not
allowed to be pursued."
-
Jim Speer, accident investigator for the Airline Pilots Association
The
half-dozen investigators whose charges will be fleshed out in a documentary set
to air July 17 - the anniversary of the crash - say they were never allowed to
get at the truth. But they are confident a missile brought down the plane.
"We
don't know who fired the missile," said Jim Speer, an accident
investigator for the Airline Pilots Association, one of a half-dozen experts
seeking a new review of the probe. "But we have a lot more confidence that
it was a missile."
The
group is comprised of people who worked for the National Transportation Safety
Board, TWA and the Airline Pilots Association, all of whom have since retired. All six say that the evidence shows
the plane was brought down by a projectile traveling at a high speed.
“It
all fits like a glove,” said Tom Stalcup, a physicist who is considered one of
the foremost independent researchers and participated in the documentary, said
during a press conference on Wednesday. “It is what it is and all the evidence
is there.”
Hank
Hughes, a retired senior accident investigator for NTSB, said probers were not
allowed to seek answers once the FBI took over the crime scene. "We just
want to see the truth come out," Hughes said. "We don't have hidden
agendas. The only thing we are looking for is the truth."
Speer,
who says he found explosive residue on a
part from the right wing which also had three holes, agreed.
“It’s
obvious that the truth was not allowed to be pursued," said Speer. “A
majority of people working in that hangar did not feel as if the evidence was
properly being handled.”
