Francis doesn't get it: they fired the wrong kind of missile warheads and a good portion of that 2% that is missing is much of the underside of the nose section. I heard the testimony from the metallurgists who explained that there were 1,400 small holes in the metal and the missile guys talking about the big chunks of metal shrapnel that conventional missiles send out. No fit? OK, no missile. Done. Idiots. They didn't consider the less-conventional tungsten pellets of the RBS-70. An influence fuze detonation of a warhead flying near the aircraft would hit it with about half of its pellets, and it has 3,000. Cut that in half and you have 1,500 pellets of 3mm tungsten. How far off from that is 1,400 holes not much bigger than 3mm?
Hot tungsten burns aluminum. No fuel from the fuel tank would ever have hit the forward fuselage. There was very little in the tank, most would have burned in the initial explosion of the fuel tank and any that spilled out and remained liquid would have vaporized and been scavenged back at 400+ mph by the slipstream before it could have reached, much less ignited the bottom of the forward fuselage as it broke off. So, how is it that the bottom of the fwd fuselage is charred black and shows obvious evidence of sheet metal pushed INWARD against surrounding frame members when an internal explosion should have bulged all of the skin outward, away from the framing members. And, last but not least, how do the nose gear doors happen to get pushed inward and backward, when the ogive of the nose, where the nose wheel is located, is well up away from the plane along the bottom of the fuselage? Ok, that's right, I forgot: an explosion of the fuel tank runs forward of the plane and then turns around to smack the nose gear doors inward and blow them off of the plane to be among the first debris to fall off of the wreck. No, in all seriousness, the only thing that can accomplish all of this is an external detonation, which can only be caused by a missile, and the only one with the range, the warhead characteristics, and in possession of an Iran that wanted to punish us for ignoring warnings over sanctions threats, was the RBS-70. Francis would do himself a great favor by simply responding with a no comment on such queries. The evidence of a missile is overwhelming, but only if you know what to look for--and if you really want the answers. What astonishes me is that my original article on this, "Uncivil Air War," has been out there for 10 years and has been on the internet, free for anybody to read, and yet it is virtually ignored when it provides most of the ansers, unlikely these exploitation books claiming Navy missiles. The book FIRST STRIKE would be a good step in the right direction if it weren't for the fact that that SOB, James Sanders, who wrote the first book of lies about a Navy missiles, wasn't involved in it. That guy should be in jail for fraud. His book, THE DOWNING OF TWA FLIGHT 800 was an exploitative piece of garbage. What Sanders does not realize is that his little money-maker actually indicts him as a liar. There are black and white photos of the infamous "red missile residue" fabric strips and the inside back cover contained a color photo. One thing I noted upon close inspection at the time was that you could clearly see a shiny reflection of glue in some of the crystalline shapes. The back photo doesn't reveal the size very well but the B&W one does. These are very thin strips. This is a guy who claims that he had access to an entire sheet of fabric stolen and given to him by a TWA employee. Why cut strips from this, unless it is actually a case that they reveal that they are, indeed, stripes of glue and not widespread stains of alleged missle motor residue. Not only that, but any residue from a just-launched and exploded missile (ok, even one that didn't detonate) would be hot and burning. Where is the soot? Where is the black scorching? Then look at the illustration, again from his book, that shows you the seating plan with seats along the alleged missile path. If that many seats were contaminated, why does Sanders only have two little strips? Because it is a lie and because his fabric strips contain only adhesive, not missile "residue." Ron http://www.comcast.net/news/national/index.jsp?cat=DOMESTIC <http://www.comcast.net/news/national/index.jsp?cat=DOMESTIC&fn=/2006/07/08/ 429980.html&cvqh=itn_flight800> &fn=/2006/07/08/429980.html&cvqh=itn_flight800 Questions Remain 10 Years After Flight 800 By FRANK ELTMAN, Associated Press Writer 2 hours ago UPDATED 41 MINUTES AGO SHIRLEY, N.Y. - A little past 8:30 p.m., as the blistering July sun melted in the west, a jumbo jet carrying students, honeymooners, businessmen and others to Paris exploded in a fireball, raining carnage into the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island. It had been only a dozen minutes since TWA Flight 800 took off from Kennedy Airport. Initially, investigators were not sure whether the calamity that killed all 230 people aboard the flight on July 17, 1996, was caused by a bomb, a missile or mechanical failure. Just two days before the start of the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, it was difficult not to suspect foul play. People still question the official conclusion, reached in 2000, that TWA 800 was destroyed by an explosion in the Boeing 747's center fuel tank, likely caused by a spark from a wiring short-circuit. "I think it could have been somebody shooting at the plane, or it could have been a terrorist attack," said Mona Morfis of Long Island, on a recent visit with her grandchildren to the seaside memorial garden that pays tribute to the victims and their rescuers. The man who spent years leading the federal investigation into the crash has no such doubts. Robert Francis, the former vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, still gets missives urging him to come clean about terrorism theories or witness accounts of a streak of light heading toward the plane. Now retired and living in McLean, Va., Francis said he never responds to "very insulting e-mails, asking me when am I going to tell the truth and asking why am I lying." Because Flight 800 disintegrated over the ocean, Francis said, there was ample time for conspiracy theories to flourish. "There was no ability to make a determination quickly," he said. "We were picking up the wreckage in 130 feet of water." Investigators eventually recovered 98 percent of the wreckage from the ocean floor and painstakingly rebuilt a large part of the airliner. "We studied if it had been a missile, what would it have done to the fuselage? We had scientists in the desert shooting rockets into old fuselages," he said in a recent telephone interview. "We didn't find a single piece of wreckage that would have pointed to that kind of explosion. So I say to the missile theorists: 'Show me something.' " Another theory was that a missile from a Navy ship 200 miles away took down the plane, but Francis questioned why no one on the cruiser ever came forward. "You mean to tell me everybody kept their mouths shut?" He said investigators also searched for evidence that a terrorist had launched a shoulder-fired missile from the nearby shore. "We never found any of that," he said. "They searched every marina, every wharf." But why did so many people have doubts? "It's more acceptable to the public if somebody did this, rather than blame it on maintenance or design," said Pete Field, a retired Marine Corps pilot who now works as an aviation crash consultant. He said witnesses who claimed to have seen streaks of light heading toward the plane actually saw pieces of flaming wreckage falling, the official theory offered by the NTSB. "You see trails (of light) and it's easy to get your mind confused," he said. "I do accident investigations all the time and I find that the mind traps an image, even if it's not there. Even some aviation experts will tell you they saw something that just could not have happened." Eileen Best, who tends the garden at the TWA 800 Memorial at Smith Point County Park, said many visitors have shared their misgivings about the official conclusion. "Many people on Long Island still have doubts," she said as she prepared the garden for a 10-year commemoration on July 17. In addition to the 230 people from 14 countries who perished, the memorial honors the hundreds of police officers, firefighters, rescue workers and boaters who raced to the scene. A bench at the memorial is dedicated to the Rev. Mychal Judge, the New York Fire Department chaplain who was on duty on July 17, 1996, and acted as a counselor to the mourners for years afterward. Six weeks before he became the first official victim of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001, Judge joined relatives at a ceremony for the fifth anniversary of the TWA 800 crash. "Every year that you come here, you make this spot more blessed and more sacred, if that's possible," Judge said. 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