Flight 800 investigators come forward, say massive coverup

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**Frazzled**

With this, the NSA, and the IRS revelations, could all the crazy conspricacists actually have been right about everything? Did aliens really build the pyramids?
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/18/twa-flight-800-investigators-break-silence-in-new-documentary-claim-original/

(also was on CNN just now)
Edit: CNN version here
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/19/us/twa-crash-claim/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

TWA Flight 800 investigators break silence in new documentary, claim original conclusion about cause of crash is wrong
Published June 18, 2013

FoxNews.com
July 16, 2008: The remains of the TWA Flight 800 from New York to Paris that exploded off Long Island, New York at National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Training Facility in Ashburn,Virginia. (REUTERS/Hyungwon Kang)

A group of whistleblowers, including a number of aviation experts, have come forward in a new documentary to claim that the official explanation for the crash of TWA Flight 800 was wrong and a gas tank explosion did not bring down the flight off the coast of Long Island 17 years ago.

However, the six whistleblowers, all part of the original investigation team, stopped short of saying the plane was shot down.

Flight 800, a Boeing 747, had just taken off from JFK airport with 230 people aboard on July 17, 1996 enroute to Paris when it exploded and crashed off the coast of nearby East Moriches, Long Island, killing everyone on the plane.

“..This team of investigators who actually handled the wreckage and victims’ bodies, prove that the officially proposed fuel-air explosion did not cause the crash,” reads a statement by the producers of the film, which will debut on cable network EPIX next month. “They also provide radar and forensic evidence proving that one or more ordinance explosions outside the aircraft caused the crash.” However, the statement said they did not speculate about the source or sources of any ordinance explosions.

The whistleblower team, which includes investigators-at the time-from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), TWA, and the Airline Pilots Association, have since retired from their positions. They claim that at the time, they were placed under a gag order by the NTSB, which they charged falsified the official conclusion of the cause of the crash. They indicated they would elaborate more in a Wednesday media briefing.

The NTSB report, the culmination of a four-year investigation, suggested the cause of the explosion was due to an explosion in the gas tank caused by a short circuit.

With conspiracy theories immediately swirling around the crash – one being that it was caused by a terrorist missile strike -- the FBI conducted a 16-month investigation and concluded that there was no evidence to indicate that any criminal act occurred.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/18/twa-flight-800-investigators-break-silence-in-new-documentary-claim-original/#ixzz2WfEiczUA

**juraigamer**

Guess I should buy stock in whistles sometime soon.

**Seaward**

Huh.

Don't really know what else to say until they show us their proof and their own conclusion.

**Super Ready**

Seaward wrote:
Don't really know what else to say until they show us their proof and their own conclusion.

“..This team of investigators who actually handled the wreckage and victims’ bodies, prove that the officially proposed fuel-air explosion did not cause the crash,” reads a statement by the producers of the film, which will debut on cable network EPIX next month. “They also provide radar and forensic evidence proving that one or more ordinance explosions outside the aircraft caused the crash.” However, the statement said they did not speculate about the source or sources of any ordinance explosions.

Sounds like you won't have to wait long... not only is the proof stated as *there* and existing, they've gone the scientific route of merely presenting evidence they have and not speculating on causes beyond what they can prove. Should be interesting and eye-opening.

**JWhex**

One source of additional evidence would be the condition of other similar circuits in the same model of airplane at the time. As they all would have been examined since that was the ruled cause of the crash there could be corroborating evidence (wearing of insulation on other planes).

Were the proponents of the missile theory a minority that were over ruled by the rest of the committee? That is quite different than a cover up.

**whembly**

The thing with this is that we may never know what happened.

I always thought that this didn't pass the smell test.

The only thing that drives me nuts about this is that if it's true that it was a coverup... why? It just doesn't make any sense.

**Frazzled**

Well one conspriacy theory was that it wasn't terrorists but a Navy missile gone bad. Who knows, they were tracking the plane running drills and someone got happy with the DO NOT PUSH THIS button.

Dad, who was an airplane mechanic in one of his many lives, said the "exploding fume" theory was absolute BS. Unless you were throwing hot rounds into the tank and it didn't have a bladder structure it wouldn't do that, else all cars would eventually blow up as gasoline is much more volatile and fumy.
Of course Dad didn't trust the Gov, since they had to go out and retrieve a live nuke in West Louisiana from a plane wreck when the government told the public it 1. wasn't a military plane, just a small civilian prop; and 2. definitely didn't have a nuke on it, because it wasn't a bomber and the US didn't have live nukes on civilian planes or even B-36 bombers, and it didn't have any bombers in the Louisiana. What air plane? Whats an air plane? No planes here...