TWA 800 Opinion

[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.

 

[Phaedrus]

There's a sale on tinfoil hats over Amazon.com. They cut the price because they have the "Y2K" logo on them.

 

[AC560]

Mel Gibson told me the Jews did it.

 

[LIGHTDRIVER]

Does anyone remember the Alitalia Crew reporting what appeared to be a missle streak by the airplane one day prior to this event. I do. It was in the news.

 

[FN FAL]

Mel Gibson told me the Jews did it.

UZI Does it!

 

[joevollers]

..........

 

[BSkin]

Does anyone remember the Alitalia Crew reporting what appeared to be a missle streak by the airplane one day prior to this event. I do. It was in the news.

In that case, it MUST be true!

 

[akairman702]

Why doesn't everyone come over to my place ~ we can chow down on the extra Spam and hard tack I've had stored in the lockdown shelter I built for Y2K and we'll discuss it further. I think I have another bottle or two of Stoli left down here as well.

And hey, there's that Brittany Spears CD I've been looking for!

 

[Say Again Over]

More info:http://www.angelfire.com/hi/TWA800/index.html

 

[Whale Rider]

How many Boeing 747's have had exploding center tanks before or since? The numbers are staggering.....I guess.

 

[Mopac]

From a person related to one of the TWAers on that flight. Raytheon was testing a prototype surface to air interceptor missile. The Navy had Scud from the first Iraq War that they used as a target drone. The new missile's primary tracking system failed and it reverted to heat seeking. The closest heat source: 800.
It's funny that every time you see an image of the reconstructed aircraft in that NTSB hangar you only see essentially the fuselage. No nose or empennage and more importantly no wings or engines. They claim to have recovered over 90 percent of the aircraft. If the NTSB is using this as an effective learning tool for future accident investigators, then why don't they include everything that they've recovered. You need to study every minute piece of wreckage, right?
As far as the Navy cover up, there aren't too many windows on a missile frigate. Out of a crew of maybe 350, there were maybe a handful of eyes outside, i.e. the bridge? Everybody else is deep below deck in the CIC,powerplant etc. Just possibly, not too many people to keep quiet.