TWA 800 Opinion

[SlapShot]

I just watched the TWA 800 episode of Seconds From Disaster on The National Geographic Channel. I of course have my own opinion of what happened to that airplane. I was just wondering what others thought. It has been 10 years since the accident happened and A LOT of books have been written about it. So what do you people think happened to that airplane on that July night back in 1996?

 

[Malter1]

Exactly what the NTSB said happened.

A better question is: If so many people have claimed to have seen Bigfoot, why hasn't anyone hit one with his/her car?

 

[ATRedneck]

Exactly what the NTSB said happened.

Yep. Clinton couldn't keep a hummer under his desk a secret... I don't know how he could keep this a secret. And if it was an accidental shootdown by the Navy, somebody wouldv'e blabbed already: a self-important junior officer, a disgruntled seaman, an NCO with a guilty conscience... unless you can have 300 sailors all part of a vast cover-up.

Two immutable truths: the more people know about something, the less likely it is to be kept secret, and the simplest explanation is usually the correct one.

 

[FN FAL]

Cheesus Crust, I'm going to go out in the garage and poke my eyes out with a marlinespike, so I don't have to read another TWA 800 conspiracy thread again.

I've told you guys for the last time, Iraq flew a bunch of stealth fighters up to the air lock on the bottom of the plane and took all the people hostage, replacing them with gassed Kurds for the explosion. He's going to demand a ransom as soon as he finds out what his sentence is going to be.

 

[doh]

I don't claim to know what happened, but every FE I know says that the story they are giving out is not possible. And one of those FEs wrote the aging aircraft manual. If any one knows the aircraft systems and whats possible, he does.

 

[K-Mart]

JetBlue and Needleman are responsible.

 

[Bavarian Chef]

JetBlue and Needleman are responsible.

Martha Stewart and K-Mart are responsible.

 

[ATA For Now!]

Goerge W. Bush is responsible!!

A liberal told me so.

RV

Now back to the Vodka!

 

[K-Mart]

Goerge W. Bush is responsible!!

A liberal told me so.

RV

Now back to the Vodka![/quote]

Enjoy!

 

[Roger Murdoch]

Just to follow up on ATRedneck's post, how many NTSB, FAA, and FBI agents would have been in on the cover up. And why would we cover it up? No one ever answers that question. Do you really think people would just stop flying because of this incident. They had no problem stating that Pan Am 103 was a bomb. People continued to fly after that.

 

[KCSO780]

Has anyone seen Elvis lately

 

[Indy319FA]

Just to follow up on ATRedneck's post, how many NTSB, FAA, and FBI agents would have been in on the cover up

Also one of the FAs was married to an FBI agent in the New York office, and was a close personal friend of the lead FBI investigator (James Kallstrom). So it would probably be pretty difficult to get somebody to cover up the murder of a wife or a close friend.


Personally, I think it was Bush practicing for the day they would intentionally bring down the World Trade Center on 9/11.........after all, everything that has gone wrong for the last 16 years is Bush's fault, one way or another.....

 

[rjcap]

I don't claim to know what happened, but every FE I know says that the story they are giving out is not possible. And one of those FEs wrote the aging aircraft manual. If any one knows the aircraft systems and whats possible, he does.

Talk to the engineers at Boeing who were given the task of reproducing the fuel tank explosion under controlled circumstances.

They could never reproduce the explosive combustion in the fuel tank.

 

[CSY Mon]

[QUOTETalk to the engineers at Boeing who were given the task of reproducing the fuel tank explosion under controlled circumstances.

They could never reproduce the explosive combustion in the fuel tank.][/QUOTE]

I would like to see their report on that: Got a link?

 

[pkober]

Bigfoot threw Elvis into space which hit a metior that hit the airplane. It make perfect sense.

 

[SkiFishFly]

Bs

Talk to the engineers at Boeing who were given the task of reproducing the fuel tank explosion under controlled circumstances.

They could never reproduce the explosive combustion in the fuel tank.

I've personally seen an FA-18 with the back end opened up like a sardine can from the exact same type of explosion in tank 4. Happened during a survivability test.

Do a google search on "ullage explosion" and educate yourself.

 

[bubbers44]

I can see this thread is going nowhere so what is the point?

 

[i-no longer]

Very interesting article on this in Aviation International News, July 2006 issue. Written by a NTSB guy who worked it.

 

[rjcap]

I've personally seen an FA-18 with the back end opened up like a sardine can from the exact same type of explosion in tank 4. Happened during a survivability test.

Do a google search on "ullage explosion" and educate yourself.

Interesting information from that search.

Now that I educated myself could you tell me what type of ignition source was used on the F18 you mentioned.

 

[Huck]

Cheesus Crust, I'm going to go out in the garage and poke my eyes out with a marlinespike, so I don't have to read another TWA 800 conspiracy thread again.

Thanks man.... I needed that laugh.

By the way - as far as conspiracies, don't forget the ~5 TWA ALPA volunteers who went on paid leave (paid for by the insurance carrier) for a year to work the investigation. One of them taught my ALPA AI class. He said there was absolutely no way a missile could have hit that airframe, given the metal fragments he looked at. And he lost friends in it - yeah, he could be kept quiet.