http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/1/13/113829 TWA 800: Preposterous Hypothesis January 20, 2000 Eighth in a NewsMax.com exclusive series of installments based on James D. Sanders' book "Altered Evidence," exposing the government's tampering with evidence, cover-up and misleading the public in the crash of TWA Flight 800. Three years and $40 million dollars later, the National Transportation Safety Board still cannot produce even one scientific test result giving it the ability to say the hypothesis it foisted off on the public may have some remote possibility of being true. Instead, the NTSB said it must have been mechanical because it can find absolutely no evidence that a missile or bomb brought down TWA Flight 800. The NTSB says the initiating event, a spark, must have occurred somewhere in the middle of the center-wing-tank (CWT). See these diagrams and photographs illustrating what the NTSB said happened - and what actually happened - inside this portion of the plane. The force of this initiating event, the NTSB hypothesizes, must have traveled forward, causing span-wise beam-2 to fall forward into span-wise beam-3. The NTSB admits it is not too certain about this part of its hypothesis. It is certain that span-wise beam-3 fell forward, domino style, into the front spar. At this point the hypothesis again becomes foggy. The NTSB admits that the blast force somehow leaped over the front spar. It calls this an "anomaly." The left-front side of the CWT fell away with very little damage - so little even the NTSB could not stretch the hypothesis to the point of alleging CW-504 was blown through the exterior wall of the Boeing 747. The NTSB admits it does not know how a CWT initiating event could escape its confines, blazing a trail of destruction through which CW-504 could fall almost undamaged to the ocean. No matter how much the NTSB fudges the math, it is forced to admit that CW-504 had to exit the Boeing 747 prior to the cockpit voice recorder and data recorder losing power. Therefore, under the NTSB mechanical hypothesis, it could not have happened - another anomaly. The NTSB wishes the hypothesis ended at this point. But it doesn't. Under its $40-million hypothesis, the blast force from the mechanical initiating event leaped over the front spar, made a sharp left and blasted through the left side of TWA Flight 800, tearing off the front of the left wing, making it possible for CW-504 to fall away. The NTSB does not discuss this damage. It is an anomaly under its $40-forty-million hypothesis. Nor does the NTSB mention the right-to-left flow of damage depicted in the graphic labeled "What Really Happened." This damage placed those engaged in rewriting the history of TWA Flight 800 at risk. Right-to-left damage can be only from a missile. But according to the $40-million hypothesis, all Long Islanders have a visual impairment. Without exception, they think they see a missile streaking skyward when in fact they see burning kerosene falling from the sky. The answer was not to revise the hypothesis. Instead, a decision was made to alter the evidence. Don't like the current look? Change it. Don't want an embarrassing Navy presence? No problem. President Clinton is in charge of the National Security Council. Invoke national security. Imagine that you are inside the White House attending a meeting where these decisions were being made. Visualize a fresh-faced, young, idealistic person in the midst of the Clinton hardcore. She timidly interjects the one thought that has bothered her throughout the meeting. She is infatuated with her leader. She will do what is ordered. But there is one problem, she says. What if major media find out? They all have a good laugh and send her out to get the pizza and beer. Next: The Unwarranted Arrest Warrants Part One of Series: 'Obstruction of Justice Was Ongoing' Part Two of Series: Missile Evidence Doesn't Lie Part Three of Series: Powerful Interests Are Threatened Part Four of Series: How NBC News Was Used Part Five of Series: TWA 800: Altering Evidence to 'Fit' Part Six of Series: TWA 800: Glue Repels Missiles Part Seven of Series: Government's Position Exposed Part Nine of Series: TWA 800: The Unwarranted Arrest Warrants Part Ten of Series: TWA 800: Media Watchdogs, FBI Pets You may order your copy of James D. Sanders' book "Altered Evidence" from NewsMax.com's Book Store. For more on TWA Flight 800, visit Hot Topics. Return to Main News Page
