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originally posted by: Tolkien
a reply to: Shoshanna
Numerous eyewitnesses testified they saw a missile rising from the sea.
This WAS AN ACCIDENTAL SHOOTDOWN BY THE US NAVY.
The official explanation of a "center fuel tank explosion" has never occurred in any other 7474 before or since, in NO other Boeing, in NO other commerical aircraft, in NO other civilian aircraft,
IN NO OTHER AIRCRAFT IN HISTORY, MILITARY OR CIVILIAN, IN ALL THE HISTORY OF AVIATION !!!
Stop lying
Admit it was an accident by the US Navy
Pay the families
Stop being assholes.
originally posted by: Boomer1947
originally posted by: Tolkien
a reply to: Shoshanna
Numerous eyewitnesses testified they saw a missile rising from the sea.
This WAS AN ACCIDENTAL SHOOTDOWN BY THE US NAVY.
The official explanation of a "center fuel tank explosion" has never occurred in any other 7474 before or since, in NO other Boeing, in NO other commerical aircraft, in NO other civilian aircraft,
IN NO OTHER AIRCRAFT IN HISTORY, MILITARY OR CIVILIAN, IN ALL THE HISTORY OF AVIATION !!!
Stop lying
Admit it was an accident by the US Navy
Pay the families
Stop being assholes.
You are mostly correct.
There has never been another central fuel tank explosion. That part is bullish#t.
A 747 with the nose blown off would not climb thousands of feet like the CIA claimed. That part is against the laws of Physics.
And many witnesses saw a surface to air missile climb up, fly out and blow up the aircraft.
But it wasn't a Navy missile. The witnesses described the first burn of the missile as being bright white, accelerating very fast, and leaving a smoke trail (as I recall). That is the signature of a solid fuel rocket motor booster. The second burn was much redder and slower. That's the signature of a storable liquid fuel rocket motor (Hydrazine). The US Navy didn't use storable liquid fuels back then. Still don't, as far as I know. The signature exactly matches the characteristics of a Soviet SA-2.
As a general rule, only nation state actors have access to sophisticated weapon systems like surface to air missiles. So it looks like some nation state actor with a grudge against the US set up a special operation. Who could it be?
I vote for Iran. They had SA-2s, and they had a score to settle after we shot down one of their air liners filled with civilians in 1988 as it was departing Tehran for Dubai. This was a tit-for-tat revenge operation.
IMHO