Those episodes are everywhere on youtube
. I've watched most of them and there is stuff to be learned from each of them.
Agreed.
Unfortunately, the physical evidence of the recovered components makes it absolutely clear to anyone who's ever examined aircraft hit by missiles (and I did that for 12 years) that no external impact occurred. Of course, I suppose the conspirators could have found and removed every single piece of the accident aircraft from the ocean floor and disposed of them, then found a 747 somewhere, blown it up in secret from the inside, and deposited those pieces in the same place without anyone every catching them and nobody involved ever spilling the beans. I just don't think it particularly likely.
Given the number of documented center wing fuel tank explosions in various Boeing aircraft, including cases where wiring was the spark source, your statements are disingenuous. The fact that the aircraft survivability folks at China Lake and Wright-Patt were able to duplicate both the conditions and the results is even more compelling. Further, the fact that no MANPAD in the world could hit that plane where it was makes any such assertion ludicrous.
Then what was that fireball that was screaming up towards an airplane that so many people saw? Same with the explosive residue that some of the cloth from the seats tested positive for...I'm not 100% sold on anything, but there is alot of evidence that goes against the official report and many unanswered questions.Unfortunately, the physical evidence of the recovered components makes it absolutely clear to anyone who's ever examined aircraft hit by missiles (and I did that for 12 years) that no external impact occurred. Of course, I suppose the conspirators could have found and removed every single piece of the accident aircraft from the ocean floor and disposed of them, then found a 747 somewhere, blown it up in secret from the inside, and deposited those pieces in the same place without anyone every catching them and nobody involved ever spilling the beans. I just don't think it particularly likely.
But then again, maybe I was part of the conspiracy and I'm just trying to continue to fool you all. OTOH, no ground-launched MANPAD could have hit that plane at that speed and altiude. It's just not within those systems' envelope.
But then again, maybe it was carried aloft by terrorists in a stealth-modified Piper Cub and launched from there...
But then again...
Y'all have fun.
I heard somewhere that it was basically empty.
Unfortunately, the physical evidence of the recovered components makes it absolutely clear to anyone who's ever examined aircraft hit by missiles (and I did that for 12 years) that no external impact occurred. Of course, I suppose the conspirators could have found and removed every single piece of the accident aircraft from the ocean floor and disposed of them, then found a 747 somewhere, blown it up in secret from the inside, and deposited those pieces in the same place without anyone every catching them and nobody involved ever spilling the beans. I just don't think it particularly likely.
But then again, maybe I was part of the conspiracy and I'm just trying to continue to fool you all. OTOH, no ground-launched MANPAD could have hit that plane at that speed and altiude. It's just not within those systems' envelope.
But then again, maybe it was carried aloft by terrorists in a stealth-modified Piper Cub and launched from there...
But then again...
Y'all have fun.
So called witnesses are often horribly unreliable, it has been known from the past that even large number of people could be affected by visual hoaxes, over-interpretation, ability to see things they want to see, etc.
Eyewitness reports are the least reliable evidence we have. And the sort of MANPAD a terrorist group of that era would have had doesn't look like a "fireball," it looks like a corkscrewing smoke trail. Also, those eyewitnesses were so contaminated by the time they were questioned by people who knew the right questions to ask that their credibility stinks -- another black mark for the FBI's insistence on keeping the "witnesses" away from the NTSB and other aircraft experts because it was a "criminal investigation."
That's correct -- this was not a max range run, and the airlines don't like hauling weight they don't have to. And, since the a/c packs are right under it, and had been running on the ground, the fuel/air mix was heated just right to go "bang."
Actually, as Andy Pascal demonstrated, a missile impact would not have created the ullage explosion which broke up the aircraft. A missile impact would have created such a large hole in the tank that the overpressure would have vented through the hole and would not have been enough to rupture the structure. Also, MANPADs are IR seekers, and it would not have hit the fuselage tank anyway -- it would have hit the engine. Of course, high velocity fragments from the exploding warhead might have impacted the tank and created the necessary spark to initiate the explosion, but then there would certainly be no "explosive residue" in the cabin, and there would have been characteristic fragment penetration wounds in the skin of the aircraft -- and there were none.
You mean like testing dollar bills for cocaine residue?
I saw some pretty spectacular video of such explosions at the Transport Aircraft Survivability Symposium in St Louis in 1993 -- three years before TW800 happened. Our interest there was military transports and combat damage, but the ullange explosion prediction work was directly applicable to the TW800 investigation, and many of the people who presented there were consulted by NTSB in that later investigation. I don't recall who did those vidos at TASS, but I've seen plenty of video of ullage explosions involving all sorts of aircraft.
