TWA Flight 800

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A Disturbance in the Force
This story is breaking this morning, though it's really the promotion of a documentary:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/19/us/twa-crash-claim/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 - basically claiming that the flight was brought down by an external explosion.:

cnn said:
(CNN) -- [Breaking News Update: 8:30 a.m.]

A coming documentary on the 1996 TWA Flight 800 disaster offers "solid proof that there was an external detonation," Tom Stalcup, a co-producer of the documentary, told CNN's "New Day" on Wednesday. "Of course everyone knows about the eyewitness statements, but we also have corroborating evidence from the radar data, and the radar data shows (an) asymmetric explosion coming out of that plane -- something that didn't happen in the official theory." The National Transportation Safety Board ruled that the explosion was caused by an electrical short, most likely originating in a fuel gauge line, which found its way into the center wing fuel tank, detonating the lethal fuel vapors there.

[Previously Published Story]

Skeptics who have long theorized that TWA Flight 800 was brought down by sinister forces will get a fresh surge of energy when a new documentary attempts to disprove that the 1996 crash was accidental.

The twist: It includes six members of the large accident investigation team who, publicists say, will "break their silence" on the cause of the explosion.

They will petition the National Transportation Safety Board to reopen its investigation some 17 years after the B-747 fell in pieces into the waters off of Long Island, New York.

They include Hank Hughes, who served as a senior accident investigator with the NTSB and helped reconstruct the aircraft following its destruction. Also included, Bob Young, a top TWA investigator who participated in the investigation, and Jim Speer, an accident investigator for the Airline Pilots Association.

"These investigators were not allowed to speak to the public or refute any comments made by their superiors and/or NTSB and FBI officials about their work at the time of the official investigation," a news release announcing the documentary said.

"They waited until after retirement to reveal how the official conclusion by the (NTSB) was falsified and lay out their case."

The documentary, "TWA Flight 800," will premiere July 17, the 17th anniversary of the crash.

The co-producer of the film, Tom Stalcup, is co-founder of the Flight 800 Independent Researchers Organization and has been a longtime and passionate critic of the official investigation.

Suspicions that criminals or terrorists were behind the TWA 800 explosion are not new. The FBI conducted a parallel investigation, but concluded that the incident was not a crime or terrorist attack.

The NTSB ultimately ruled that the explosion was caused by an electrical short, most likely originating in a fuel gauge line, which found its way into the center wing fuel tank, detonating the lethal fuel vapors there.

The NTSB said Tuesday that it was aware of the pending release of the documentary, which will air on EPIX TV network, and of the producers' intent to file a petition to reopen the investigation.

"As required by NTSB regulation, a petition for reconsideration of board findings ... must be based on the discovery of NEW evidence or on a showing that the board's findings are erroneous," NTSB spokeswoman Kelly Nantel said in a statement. "At this point, the NTSB has not received a petition, however, we stand ready to review one, should it be filed."

Petitions are reviewed and a determination typically is made within 60 days, but the NTSB can take longer if necessary, she said. The safety board's investigation of TWA 800 lasted four years and "remains one of the NTSB's most extensive investigations," Nantel said.

Investigators "spent an enormous amount of time reviewing, documenting and analyzing facts and data, and held a five-day public hearing to gather additional facts before determining the probable cause of the accident," she said.

But her statement leaves open the possibility the case will be re-opened.

"While the NTSB rarely re-investigates issues that have already been examined, our investigations are never closed, and we can review any new information not previously considered by board," it said.

The documentarians said they have a "trifecta of elements" that will "prove that the officially proposed fuel-air explosion did not cause the crash." That trifecta includes forensic evidence, first-hand sources and corroborating eyewitnesses, and the whistleblowing investigators.

The evidence proves that "one or more ordnance explosions outside the aircraft caused the crash," the producers said. But it does not identify or speculate on the source of the ordnance explosions.

All 230 people aboard TWA 800 died when the plane, headed for Paris, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Scores of witnesses observed a streak of light and a fireball, giving early rise to suspicions that the terrorists had struck the plane with a rocket.

Investigators concluded the streak was likely burning fuel streaming from the plane's wing tank.


Here is what the C's had to say:

961123 said:
Q: (T) About Flight 800. Pierre Salinger claims that the info
floating around on the internet is accurate. He says that the
Navy downed the flight.
A: Close. Pierre Salinger is an impeccable journalist and not
one to "fly off the handle."
Q: (T) Very true. And that is why I am amazed that the rest
of the journalism community is attacking him.
A: Why should you be amazed? They are "bought and paid
for."
Q: (T) What did happen to flight 800?
A: This was the result of an experiment gone awry. So was
KAL "007" in 1983.
Q: (L) What was the nature of the experiment?
A: Testing of secret impulse guidance system using civilian
airliner as an arbitrary "bounce" guidance target. Instead, it
became the "homing" target, and a different aircraft became
the bouncer. This was because the programmers did not
anticipate the lower than expected altitude of the 747.
Warning: this must stay in this room for the present!!!!!!!!!!
The facts will eventually be discussed by others. At that time,
the danger is lifted. [At this point, it has been discussed in the
exact same terms as described here in a reputable, national
magazine.] Now, about KAL 007... that one is not
dangerous to know. The plane was deliberately instructed to
fly off course in order to trigger the Soviet's Pacific air
defense system, to "see what they were made of" in that
area. The plane was lost, but the experiment worked. They
did not expect them to shoot down a civilian airliner. Now,
all moving targets create electronic impulses. These can be
"read" by the proper extremely high tech equipment. Older
radar guided systems are subject to malfunctions in weather
conditions that are severe, as one example. Also, the impulse
system is an offshoot of the electromagnetic pulse
experiments being carried out at Montauk, Brookings and
elsewhere as part of the HAARP project! In connection with
Pentagon missile tests, HAARP has many interesting tie-ins,
not the least of which is your cell phone towers. Now, the
homing target can be any moving object. It can be whatever
is entered on the computer. It can be a squirrel in a tree, a
jogger on the beach, a building, whatever you want. The
system looks for any moving target in order to establish
recognition to the computer, in order to establish recognition
of match pattern of pulse. TWA 800 was flying at the exact
same altitude that was supposed to be designated for the
"drone" craft. The drone plane was farther out at sea. The
"bounce" target was to be any moving object in the air within
400 square miles.
Q: (L) So, TWA 800, through a series of problems,
happened to find itself at the right altitude, a restricted
altitude, within the parameters of the experiment. Anything
further on this?
A: Not for now.

So, the release of the documentary may or may not result in a new investigation but it sounds like the radar data might be interesting.
 
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