[continued from Part 2] http://www.newsday.com/jet/year/twatape.htm includes the documentation from just one source of that TIMELINE of major events of less than 60 seconds. 8:31:01 8:31:02 8:31:03 8:31:04 8:31:05 8:31:06 8:31:07 8:31:08 8:31.09 8:31:10 8:31:11 Initial Event dooms TWA Flight 800 at 13,780 feet. 8:31:12 8:31:13 8:31:14 8:31:15 8:31:16 8:31:17 8:31:18 8:31:19 8:31:20 8:31:21 8:31:22 8:31:23 8:31:24 8:31:25 8:31:26 8:31:27 8:31:28 8:31:29 8:31:30 8:31:31 8:31:32 8:31:33 8:31:34 8:31:35 8:31:36 8:31:37 8:31:38 8:31:39 8:31:40 8:31:41 8:31:42 8:31:43 8:31:44 8:31:45 8:31:46 8:31:47 8:31:48 8:31:49 8:31:50 First report of an explosion [the massive fireball] - of any size - or of anything else unusual in the sky. 8:31:51 8:31:52 8:31:53 8:31:54 8:31:55 8:31:56 8:31:57 8:31:58 8:31:59 8:32:00 Officialdom contends that the huge fireball explosion was "about a mile above the surface" and that splashdown was 8 seconds later. Airline pilot David McClaine�s report of the massive fireball was TIME STAMPED at 8:31:50 as noted in the above TIMELINE. He reportedly estimated that his reaction time to make the report after he saw the massive fireball explosion was 3 SECONDS. Which would put the TIME OF THE MASSIVE FIREBALL EXPLOSION AT 8:31:47. And SPLASHDOWN AT 8:31:55, assuming the accuracy of officialdom�s 8 seconds from MF to splashdown. WHICH REDUCES THE TIMELINE OF MAJOR EVENTS RELATED TO THE DISASTER TO 44 SECONDS - from the initial event at 13,780 feet that started tearing the 747 apart at 8:31:11 until splashdown at 8:31:55. McClaine reportedly contends that he was PERSONALLY INTERVIEWED THE DAY AFTER THE DISASTER by 2 men who identified themselves as FBI agents. In short to this point, Kallstrom�s agents had the evidence of the 44 SECOND TIMELINE FROM IE TO SPLASHDOWN IN HAND LESS THAN 24 HOURS AFTER THE DISASTER. IT�S IMPOSSIBLE for Kallstrom or anyone else to try to fit a missile shootdown of the airliner at 13,780 feet at 8:31:11 into the 60 seconds TIMELINE, much less the 44 seconds timeline from IE to splashdown, because it would be in IRRECONCILABLE CONFLICT WITH THE TIMELINE OF THE STREAK WITNESSES OBSERVATIONS. ALL of the streak witnesses also saw the massive fireball explosion according to NTSB Exhibit 4A. Yet, their observations of the streak IMMEDIATELY PRECEEDED and TRACKED TO the massive fireball explosion "about a mile above the surface". Which, needless to say, is in IRRECONCILABLE CONFLICT with both the FBI/CIA and NTSB "explanation" videos. The witnesses UNIFORMLY reported only ONE streak and only ONE massive fireball explosion. The streak was not and could not have been seen ascending at or above 13,780 feet as portrayed in the "explanation" videos AND track to but no higher than the massive fireball explosion as UNIFORMLY reported by the streak witnesses. http://hometown.aol.com/bardonia/meyer.htm is the DETAILED presentation of New York Air National Guard helicopter pilot Fred Meyer who wintessed both the streak and the massive fireball explosion. http://www.press- enterprise.com/headlines/twa800/html/pilot_reports_graphic.html is his press graphic of what he saw. Note the IMMEDIATE PROXIMITY of the streak to the massive fireball explosion. http://www.infoshop.com/106rescue/twa800-pres/sld004.html is the graphic of Meyer�s NYANG unit prepared after he and his crewmates were debriefed following the disaster and further dramatizes the IMMEDIATE PROXIMITY of the streak to the massive fireball explosion. Additionally, Meyer contends that he and his crewmates ALL agreed at the time that the elapsed time from the massive fireball explosion until splashdown was APPROXIMATELY TEN SECONDS, further supporting officialdom�s contention that the ET from MF to splashdown was about 8 seconds. Meyer�s helicopter was on a practice flight at Gabreski Airport and his co- pilot, Chris Baur, reported what they saw to Gabreski tower and requested clearance to leave the pattern to investigate. Interestingly, Meyer�s DETAILED presentation earlier noted documents his later contentions that what he saw was a missile shootdown of the 747 at 13,780 feet. Keep in mind the "shootdown" would have had to occur at 8:31:11 at that altitude. Yet, he obviously did not and could not have seen a "shootdown" of the airliner at 13,780 feet only 3 to 4 seconds before he saw the massive fireball explosion well over a mile lower in the sky. How big was the massive fireball explosion? http://www.multipull.com/twacasefile/aviator.html is the personally prepared detail report of witnesses Sven Faret & Ken Wendell who flew over to the smoke cloud it left and found its top to be at 7700 feet. A Missile Hugger has calculated that the massive fireball explosion was 2000+ feet in diameter. If the bottom of the massive fireball explosion was "about a mile above the surface" as alleged by officialdom and if the massive fireball was 2000+ feet in diameter, the top would have been at, gosh, about 7700 feet? The FBI and NTSB are well aware of Meyer�s missile shootdown allegations, in part no doubt because of Meyer�s active cooperation with a retired Navy pilot, Bill Donaldson, who has also made widely publicized allegations, including in his own website http://www.twa800.com/ , that TWA Flight 800 was the victim of a missile shootdown. It seems reasonable to assume that the FBI and NTSB would both like to get Donaldson and his supporters, who reportedly include 2 retired Admirals and a retired General, off their necks and that a simple way to do it would be to RELEASE THE GABRESKI ATC TAPE TRANSCRIPT TO THE PUBLIC to document the TIME that Baur radioed the report of what they had seen. It�s clear from Meyer�s detailed presentation that the radio report was IMMEDIATELY AFTER the massive fireball explosion - and likely a safe bet that it was timestamped at just about precisely the same instant that McClaine�s radio report was to another ATC tower - 8:31:50 - THIRTY-NINE SECONDS AFTER the initial event started tearing the 747 apart well over a mile higher in the sky. Over 3 years have now elapsed since the disaster, far too long to leave the Flight 800 Families in the middle of an accusatory war of words between officialdom and the Missile Huggers. The Missile Huggers are Kallstrom�s own Frankenstein creations. He knew or should have known in less than 24 hours what the TIMELINE of the major events was and it should have been glaringly apparent within only a few days from the witness reports his 1000+ agents speedily obtained that the observations of the streak witnesses ALL tracked to the massive fireball explosion "about a mile above the surface" 36-39 seconds LATER and NOT to the 747 at 13,780 feet at 8:31:11. He was advised by his own experts within little more than a few weeks that there was NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF A MISSILE SHOOTDOWN [or bomb]. Yet, he pushed for and obtained authorization to re-construct a major part of the wreckage and to contract for millions of dollars in outside services in his stated intention to "get the scumbags who did this" before belatedly announcing well over a year later that there was NO EVIDENCE of a missile shootdown [or bomb]. Then, on a flimsy pretext, he tried to permanently give the witness reports gathered by his army of agents a "Top Secret" status. He did indeed engage in a "coverup" effort - of his own mass of mess. All of which breathed life into his Frankenstein creations., the Missile Huggers. Who promptly accused him of being an active participant in the felonious coverup of a missile shootdown of Flight 800 and who in return he labeled as "bottom feeders", etc. In summary, MOST of the $40,000,000+ spent todate on the investigation of the disaster WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SPENT had it not been for Kallstrom�s outrageously unprofessional pigheaded conduct. It�s routine for those in government or private business to try to coverup embarrassing problems. Indeed the definition of coverup is: "an attempt to prevent something embarrassing from becoming public". But those who try to coverup what Kallstrom has done have only 2 possible excuses - ignorance or a desire to avoid embarrassing others and/or themselves. Most in or out of government are ignorant of the TIMELINE of the major events related to the TWA 800 disaster, much less the IRRECONCILABLE CONFLICT between what the witnesses actually saw and the notion that they saw a missile shootdown of the 747. But it�s an easy thing for anyone to privately determine for themselves simply by entering the approximate TIME they believe each or any witness saw the streak in the 60 second TIMELINE already included here [or a 90 second, 120 second or any other timeline they wish] and see for themselves that each or any witness did not and could not have seen what Kallstrom and his Frankenstein creations convinced themselves the witnesses saw, a missile shootdown of the airliner - and that those making the shootdown allegations have always been and continue to be purveyors of the impossible. Kallstrom managed to feather his nest with a cushy job in private business waiting when he decided to take early retirement and get out of the mess he had created. Grassley could have and should have subpoened him for the hearing but didn�t and Kallstrom made himself unavailable. Although he engages in occasional javeline tossing at his critics from the sidelines, it�s probably a safe bet he will continue to make himself unavailable to the extent possible for any controlled Q & A session in which some javeline catching would likely also be required. Some of those in leadership positions at the NTSB may not be so lucky. Although it�s reasonable to assume it was their ignorance of what the witnesses specifically saw and WHEN they saw it in the TIMELINE because Kallstrom shut out their Witness Interview Teams at the outset of the investigation that led them to rely in large part on the FBI reports about the witnesses, the NTSB leadership did entangle themselves in Kallstrom�s mass of mess with their own untenable "explanation" video and the time to gracefully extricate themselves may have just about run out because of their own continued footdragging about releasing evidence such as the Gabreski ATC tape transcript while trying to give the appearance of ignoring the javeline tossing between Kallstrom and the Missile Huggers - which, as already noted, is focusing more and more attention on WHAT the witnesses saw and WHEN in the TIMELINE they saw it. I wrote to the NTSB a few months ago and urged them to have their Witness Interview Teams carefully and thoroughly interview some of the witnesses, particularly including airline pilot McClaine who apparently came to the erroneous conclusion from other input added to what he actually saw that a yellowish colored landing light he had been noticing for perhaps as long as six minutes up until the moment before the massive fireball exploded might have been Flight 800 - which yellowish light some of the Missile Huggers had by tortuous reasoning contended was flames - which raised the possibility that somebody in the FBI with an equal dose of missile mania had used as the basis for the FBI/CIA "explanation" video of the headless 747 trailing flames as it allegedly climbed several thousand feet aftter the decapitation - the alleged explanation of the ascending streak in that video. Which the NTSB didn�t find completely palatable but nevertheless adopted much from when preparing its own "explanation" video. There is good reason to believe that the NTSB Witness Interview Teams did then closely question some of the witnesses - including a 2 hour session with McClaine. And that the NTSB then also interviewed some of the analysts of the original FBI witness "interviews". Which obviously wouldn�t have been necessary unless the FBI representations about the witnesses observations didn�t mesh in some important way with what the NTSB Witness Interview Teams determined for themselves from some of the witnesses. Nobody, no matter how hard they try, can make a silk purse out of a sows ear about WHAT the witnesses saw and WHEN they saw it in the TIMELINE of events and that includes Kallstrom, his Missile Hugger creations and the NTSB. The initial event started tearing the 747 apart at 8:31:11 at 13,780 feet. The massive fireball exploded "about a mile above the surface" 36-39 seconds later. The streak witnesses ALL saw it IMMEDIATELY PRECEED AND TRACK TO the massive fireball explosion. The FBI/CIA and NTSB "explanation: videos are in IRRECONCILABLE CONFLICT with WHAT the witnesses saw and WHEN they saw it in the TIMELINE of events. That�s EMBARRASSING for the FBI, CIA, NTSB and the Missile Huggers to admit. When the fire gets too hot, the FBI and CIA have a target of opportunity to pin the blame on - Kallstrom. Which won�t hold water very well. But the NTSB is in a much more ticklish situation, having just taken part in 2 congressional hearings in which its spokespersons insisted it was the ONLY agency qualified to be in charge of air crash investigations, so how do they gracefully admit they didn�t properly analyze the witness "interviews" they obtained from the FBI as evidenced by their own untenable "explanation" video based in such large part on the FBI�s "interviews"? Well, they still have a small but fast closing window of opportunity to minimize their own embarrassment. They DID eventually follow up the FBI "interviews" with careful and thorough interviews by their own Witness Interview Teams - which they would have done at the outset had they not been shut out by Kallstrom. They DID thereafter also interview the original witness report "analysts". And the results of doing what they should have been permitted to do at the outset clearly demonstrate why they should have been in charge at the outset. In short, their own Witness Team interviews determined that that there were NO "Missile Witnesses" and their own Witness Team interviews are buttressed by the OTHER ATC tapes, such as the Gabreski Airport tower tape, which were picked up at the outset by the FBI and it has taken a lot of time to unravel the facts they should have had immediate access to at the outset but they are proud and pleased to report that the witness part of the investigation is now finally concluded and the allegations about "Missile Witnesses" finally laid to rest. But if the NTSB leadership decides instead to proceed in due course to issue a final report that does NOT address WHAT the witnesses saw and WHEN they saw it in the TIMELINE, they will step into quicksand because Kallstrom will keep tossing javelines at the Missile Huggers from the sidelines and the Missile Huggers will keep tossing javelins at officialdom in general and the constant exchange of javelins will continue to focus attention on WHAT the witnesses saw and WHEN they saw it in the TIMELINE of events - and I�ll keep stirring the pot with mini-books such as this in my continuing efforts to get all concerned to come to grips with the reality of what the witnesses actually saw - a fiery streak intimately connected to the immediately following massive fireball explosion, a fiery streak that DIDN�T EVEN EXIST until long AFTER the initial event that doomed TWA Flight 800. Public release at this time of the Gabreski Airport ATC tape transcript can resolve the Kallstrom/Missile Hugger rukus NOW. Three years have passed since the disaster. Why should the public have to wait any longer for the Gabreski ATC tape transcript disclosure? Why should the Flight 800 Families have to wait? Because some are intent on trying to avoid embarrassment that will inevitably prove to be unavoidable anyway?
