Looking for Millsile Witnesses TWA Flight 800

Looking for Millsile Witnesses TWA Flight 800

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What prompts this column is an e-mail I received last week from a retired USNR commander and former TWA pilot, with whom I had had no prior contact.

He recounted a conversation that he had shortly after the mid-air destruction of TWA Flight 800 on July 17, 1996, off the coast of Long Island. He had a particular interest in the plane's demise for two reasons. One is that he was a qualified accident investigator. The second is that he had flown that very same flight a week earlier.

"It had to be a bloody missile, probably an un-armed Tomahawk, going for center-of-mass," he said to a senior flight manager of his acquaintance. "They were most likely going for a target drone and testing their capability to go-through normal aircraft traffic to get at the target."

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Are they really trying to find out what happened or is there perhaps another reason for this to come out now?

I always thought a Tomahwk Missle was surface to surface or air to suface but not surface to air as they are indicating was the case here, can someone enlightenn me?

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I saw a show about this. It was one of the most thoroughly investigated crashes in history -- the FBI recovered practically every part of the plane from the seafloor and put it back together in a hangar. They couldn't find any clear evidence of a missile or explosive aboard, it looked like the gas tank just blew up.

Uh, there is no such thing as a Tomahawk anti-aircraft missile. The only versions that ever existed were an anti-ship missile and the land attack missile, and the ASM is no longer in service. And there's no such thing as a "center mass hit" with an air to air missile. It uses a proximity warhead and when it gets within a certain range it detonates. If it's an impact fuse, it goes for wherever the biggest return comes from. Infrared goes for the engines or whatever the largest heat return is, radar for wherever the biggest part of the radar return is. And if it was unarmed it probably wouldn't have snapped the aircraft in two like that. It would have caused major damage but it probably wouldn't have shattered it so fast they couldn't even get a Mayday out.

[edit on 3/29/2007 by Zaphod58]

Originally posted by djohnsto77
They couldn't find any clear evidence of a missile or explosive aboard, it looked like the gas tank just blew up.

You are right but there are tons of conspiracy theories out there and this one claims there were two missiles, something I was not aware of to be honest. I had read reports of one but two I had not. There is another side to this story, I am wondering if anyone will pick up on it as I did????