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visit www.TWA800.comIf you ask them nicely, you might be able to get one of these twa800.com bumper stickers… while supplies last. If you like, jump ahead to the American 587 section. The latest: We are forever changed. Peering out to sea, scores of people all along the South Shore saw a fireball over the ocean. Many reported seeing a streak of light — "resembling a flare" — moving upward in the sky in the split second before the fireball, which seemed to split into two fireballs as it fell toward the water. Sandy's Secrets: The TWA 800 Cover-up and 9/11. On August 22, 1996, the politically reliable [Jamie] Gorelick met with the FBI brass and directed their efforts away from any serious terror or missile leads. From this point on, the FBI was tasked with finding an alternative explanation for the explosive residue found throughout the plane and duly reported to The New York Times for the previous month. This FBI search culminated in an exculpatory tale of a sloppy dog-training exercise aboard the Flight 800 plane five weeks before the crash. Though easily disproved, the story satisfied a painfully incurious media. NTSB Honcho disowns TWA 800 zoom climb. Slowly but surely, retired United Airline Capt. Ray Lahr and attorney John Clarke are prying open the can of worms known as the TWA Flight 800 investigation, and sooner or later the major media will have to take notice. TWA 800: Down the Memory Hole. On August 14, 1996, four weeks after the crash of TWA Flight 800, The New York Times confirmed what the White House feared, namely that America had suffered the most lethal attack on its homeland ever. "Now that investigators say they think the center fuel tank did not explode," wrote the Times, "they say the only good explanations remaining are that a bomb or a missile brought down the plane." The Secret Sandy Risked His All For. Before the summer Olympics of 1996, in fact, [White House terrorism advisor Richard] Clarke had warned security planners about the possibility of Islamic terrorists hijacking a 747 and flying it into Olympic Stadium. Two days before the start of those Olympics, on July 17, Saddam's National Liberation day, with the U.S Navy on the highest state of alert since the Cuban missile crisis, TWA Flight 800 blew up inexplicably off the coast of Long Island. The fact that the President was reviewing Bojinka plans soon after the destruction of TWA Flight 800 makes the versions of those plans with his hand written notes on them all the more critical. Part two of the above article: Why Bush Justice Rolled Over For Sandy Berger. The Bush White House is not fully in control of its own Justice Department and FBI. In truth, the decision to protect Berger may have more to do with saving the Clinton legacy than with stabilizing the nation. Lance's Triple Cross blows TWA 800 wide open. Of all the mainstream reporters writing today on the terror front, none has the cojones of five-time Emmy Award winner Peter Lance, author of the new book, Triple Cross. ... The most explosive part of his book deals not with Ali Mohamed, the master spy in question, but with the fate of TWA Flight 800. Further advances on TWA 800 front. The Review author believes that based on the debris field alone: "the Administration would have known within the first two weeks after the crash that missiles brought down the aircraft." Although prudent in his accusations, he strongly suspects that the long delay in recovering the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder indicates that the decision to misdirect the investigation "actually occurred the night of the disaster." With this conclusion, I fully concur. Read this if you vote or fly. Peter Goelz oversaw the NTSB investigation of the downing of TWA Flight 800 in 1996. I attended the 2000 presentation of the NTSB final report, which lasted two days in Crystal City [Arlington], Virginia. At the very end, a young Jewish fellow, whose name I have forgotten, a member of the NTSB panel, incredibly dismissed the eyewitness reports of more than 100 people who said they saw a missile trail streak upwards from the surface of the ocean and hit the aircraft as the collective hallucinations of drunk New Yorkers — solely based on the time of day and season of the year! I could not believe the audacity of this position. (Now, I do. They did the same to me.)] At that point, I realized that the NTSB — under Peter Goelz — was an extremely corrupt organization that was involved in covering-up the truth — not finding it. CNN and the disappearing zoom climb: The zoom climb has fully disappeared. Retired United Airlines Captain Ray Lahr has spent the last five years of his life battling the CIA and the NTSB to secure the calculations used to determine the nose-less plane's vertical climb. And after five years of being stonewalled, he learns from CNN that there was no zoom climb in the first place. Massachusetts group sues over Flight 800 debris. A Massachusetts group has filed a lawsuit to force federal officials to release information about a piece of debris from Flight 800 that it hopes will show that a missile downed the plane. Federal investigators have dismissed that explanation as the cause of the 1996 explosion that killed all 230 people aboard. Instead they concluded that a spark ignited fuel tank vapors. Questions Remain 10 Years After Flight 800. 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. A TWA 800 Crash Cover-up? All the recovered plane debris was pressured washed before it was trucked to the hanger for re-assembly. Why? If they suspected a bomb or missile, it makes no sense to pressure wash all the debris, before it was even examined. The FBI was calling the shots! Was TWA Flight 800 a First Strike By Jihad Terrorists? Two days after the crash, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch told CNN: "We're looking at somebody who either put a bomb on it or shot a missile, a surface-to-air missile." Sen. Hatch has yet to explain his early comments. During the probe, investigators appeared to be trying to have it both ways; the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) was operating under the authority of the FBI, which was involved on the grounds that a crime might have caused the crash, though FBI investigator James Kallstrom refused to confirm or deny even one shred of criminal evidence. The "Bombing" of TWA 800. Over five years have passed since the crash of TWA Flight 800 killed 230 people, and now, at long last, two former high ranking government officials speaking on television have implicitly disavowed the claim that a fuel-tank explosion caused the destruction of that airplane. Possible Involvement Of Ron Brown Associate In TWA 800 Disaster: A Geneva lawyer, Gerald Page, alleged in [a Swiss] TV report that [Mohammed Samir] Ferrat took out life insurance policies worth several million Swiss franks in the weeks before TWA 800 crashed July 17, 1996. ... In early February 1996 U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown led a trade mission to the Ivory Coast during which he was photographed with Ferrat, [George S.] Henderson and Ivorian Commerce Minister Angoran Kacou. Official TWA 800 Findings Challenged. The TWA Flight 800 Independent Researchers Organization, FIRO, has taken the unusual step of filing a petition with the National Transportation Safety Board, NTSB, asking for reconsideration of the findings on the probable cause of the crash of TWA Flight 800. ... Their petition cites as one important example metals of "unknown origin" that were found in the bodies of many of those who died in the crash on July 17, 1996. The FBI asked the Brookhaven National Laboratory to analyze pellets found in the bodies. They contained zirconium and barium, indicative of an incendiary device foreign to a Boeing 747 airliner. The NTSB acknowledges that the source of these pellets is unknown and that the FBI did not try to determine the source. TWA 800 — 2007: Four times during the weekend of January 6/7th, 2007, David Mattingly, a CNN correspondent, aired a 2-hour documentary on the crash of TWA 800. Unfortunately, Mr. Mattingly has no concept of technical understanding and, as such, he completely misled his audience by suggesting that commercial airliners are dangerous to fly as their fuel tanks may explode at any time. Airline captain adds NSA to TWA Flight 800 case. More than five years ago, retired United Airline Capt. Ray Lahr began his FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) petition to discover why TWA Flight 800 blew up on the night of July 17, 1996, off the coast of Long Island. The powers that be at the Central Intelligence Agency may have thought they could stall Lahr until he just gave up or died trying. If so, they didn't know the man. You should visit Ray Lahr's web site. He has a number of interesting graphics and video clips that contradict the official explanation of the crash. The next two items (and the animated graphic) are examples found on his site.  Radar Tape — March 21, 2004. "TWA800's forward speed as measured by radar would have decreased to 111 knots during the hypothetical zoom-climb. That just didn't happen. In fact, the radar detected a slight increase of speed during the period TWA800 was supposed to be in a zoom-climb. Quite simply, that means there was no zoom climb." Burden of Proof (by unknown author). "The NTSB factual record of the post explosion trajectory and the alleged method for its calculation is criminally fraudulent in its entire scope, intent, and presentation." "60 Minutes" Ignores TWA 800. There is no evidence supporting the official claim that the crash resulted from a spontaneous explosion in the center-wing fuel tank. … A pilot who observed the accident from an altitude of 8,500 feet says that TWA 800 was a thousand feet below him when the fuel tank burst into flames, creating a trail of black smoke. N.Y. Times continues to avoid TWA 800 connection. Yesterday [8/17/2005], the New York Times reported that State Department analysts had warned the Clinton administration in July 1996 about the dangers of Osama bin Laden's impending move to Afghanistan. Deep in the article, the Times reports that the State Department assessment was "written July 18, 1996." Nowhere in the article does the Times mentioned what happened the day before. TWA 800's 'Deep Throat'. One has to marvel at how fully and conspicuously situational is the media's affection for whistleblowing. To blow the whistle on a Republican makes one a hero. Witness the legendary "Deep Throat" or Richard Clarke or the Enron whistleblowers. To blow the whistle on a Democrat — particularly, a Clinton — makes one a pariah. Witness the treatment of Linda Tripp or Kathleen Willey or Paula Jones or the Arkansas State Troopers or the pathologists who pointed out the inconvenient hole in Ron Brown's head and paid for it with their careers. Two More Arrested in Arms Plot. Two Armenians were busted as part of a multimillion-dollar plot to ship shoulder-to-air missiles into the United States that could be used by terrorists to shoot down airplanes, federal authorities announced yesterday [March 18, 2005]. TWA Flight 800: Attacked, destroyed, covered-up. In his extraordinary new DVD documentary, "Mega Fix," Emmy-award-winning filmmaker Jack Cashill traces the roots of Sept. 11 to the political exploitation of terror investigations by the Clinton White House in the desperate 1995-1996 election cycle. This 8-part series began in Oklahoma City and today moves to the coast of Long Island. TWA 800: Wreckage Missing, Cases Pending, Eight Years Later. As the eight-year anniversary of the crash approaches, the first piece of wreckage that radar sites recorded separating from the plane is missing. Navy divers located and recovered this piece, but the NTSB apparently never got it. The piece was recorded by multiple FAA radar sites hurling off the right side of the plane just as it exploded. Its significance cannot be overstated. It was ejected at apparent supersonic speeds, traveled horizontally 1/2 a mile (perpendicular to TWA 800's flight path), and landed more than 1/4 mile closer to JFK airport than can be explained in the official crash scenario. TWA Flight 800 The TWA 800 Overview: While the NTSB eventually concluded that the jet had exploded due to mechanical failure, as far as many people are concerned, what truly happened remains a mystery. Judith Miller, TWA 800 and the Death of Press Freedom. According to three media sources – one deep inside NBC on July 17, 1996, when missile-fire brought the giant 747 down – in the hours after TWA Flight 800 was shot down a bidding war ensued for a video showing missile-fire bringing down TWA Flight 800. The bidding went above $50,000, at which time, the Fox News team, New York, was blocked from further bidding. The video ended up in the hands of NBC, where it was confiscated by the FBI. Read this: William S. Donaldson's letter to Boeing and TWA regarding TWA-800. James Kallstrom, the FBI agent in charge: Kallstrom's quest for redemption: September 11 had to be a day of agony for James Kallstrom. He had spent more than 20 years of his FBI career in the New York City office, the last four of those years as bureau chief. … As the FBI agent in charge of the TWA 800 investigation starting five years prior, he had had the opportunity to prevent an event like this from happening. But he did not. TWA Flight 800 - The Missile Theory: More than 150 'credible' witnesses — including several scientists — have told the FBI and military experts they saw a missile destroy TWA Flight 800. Was TWA 800 shot down by a missile? TWA Flight 800 Downed by Missile. [The] most recent information says the US Navy shot down TWA 800 with a missile they had aimed at a small plane threatening to crash into the passenger jet. Shoulder-Fired Missiles Pose Serious Threat to Passenger Jets. Worldwide, at least 24 civilian aircraft have been brought down by shoulder-fired missiles, and more than 500 people have been killed. And experts say that shoulder-to-air missiles can be bought for only a few thousand dollars on the black market. But U.S. commercial aircraft still have no defense system against these portable missiles. JFK Aide Pierre Salinger Dies at 79. Pierre Salinger, a journalist and former press secretary to President John F. Kennedy, was also a prominent backer of the theory that the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 was caused by a Navy missile. [He] left the United States because he opposed the presidency of George W. Bush. "He was very upset because he thought Bush was not fit to be president. He said he would leave if Bush became president and he did," Mrs. Salinger said. Was TWA Flight 800 a First Strike By Jihad Terrorists? It's been seven years since the July 17, 1996, crash of TWA Flight 800 near Long Island, New York, and the cause remains unknown; the lingering mystery of one of the nation's worst aviation disasters is now a forgotten media spectacle. Revelation in San Francisco: We are now at a crossroads in American journalism. If our scenario is correct, the White House knew in 1996 that the use of airplanes by Islamic terrorists to attack targets in America had gone well beyond the planning stages. TWA 800 revelation: What the president knew. The most controversial part of our new book, "First Strike — TWA Flight 800 and the Attack on America," comes at the end, in Chapter 14, when James Sanders and I argue that terrorists used a small airplane as a flying bomb to destroy TWA Flight 800. We further argue that had the truth been told on July 17, 1996, there might not have been a Sept. 11, 2001. The FBI – A Legend Decays. Without the seeming immunity granted [to the FBI] by virtue of long-past successes, they would have lost most of their credibility by the time of the TWA 800 disaster and the mysterious death of Vincent Foster, and their activities in both these matters would have been subjected to the most rigorous scrutiny. Editor's Note: The following article was written a few months after the TWA 800 crash, and is especially interesting because it forecasts the costs passenger profiling, automatic screening, bag matching, sniffing for explosives and huge delays at airports, long before the September 11 hijackings. The Cost of Antiterrorist Rhetoric: Nearly five months after the tragic TWA flight 800 crash, we still do not know whether the 230 people on board were killed by a terrorist act. With 95 percent of the wreckage recovered, there is little support for the theory that a bomb or missile caused the crash. Nonetheless, the White House quickly reacted to the incident by immediately implementing several heightened security measures and creating a White House Commission on Aviation, Safety, and Security (the Gore Commission). Who knew what, and when? Isaac Yeffet, the former director of security for El Al Airline ...has continued to insist that TWA Flight 800 was destroyed as the result of a terrorist attack, and Yeffet is in a position to know something about terrorism. What does Dick Morris know about TWA 800? On July 15, I was able to question Morris on Paul Schiffer's excellent Cleveland-area radio show. Although in his new book Morris refers to TWA 800 as one of three "attacks" in the "terrorist summer of 1996," he clearly did not want to talk about this incident on the air. TWA Flight 800: By the numbers. Iraqis behind 747's demise? Evidence is growing that terrorists — possibly orchestrated by Iraq — bear ultimate responsibility for the demise of TWA Flight 800 in July 1996, according to authors Jack Cashill and James Sanders. Ex-NTSB honcho tries to torpedo "First Strike". Jailed author of Flight 800 book vindicated: Justice Department concedes wrongdoing in case against Journalist James Sanders. How the New York Times blew its biggest story: Scooped by the Washington Post on the second biggest political scandal of our time, Watergate, the New York Times had a chance to even the score. The paper had an all but proprietary lock on the most consequential political cover-up in recent American history, the case of TWA Flight 800. No longer an accident! The jury is in on TWA Flight 800, and the verdict is clear: There is absolutely no evidence of either a mechanical failure, or of a bomb planted in the fuselage. Indeed, all available evidence suggests the explosive event that destroyed the ill-fated airliner in 1996 was caused by a terrorist group called the Islamic Change Movement. Seeking New Light On TWA Flight 800: The deadliest U.S. airline disaster prior to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon was the July 17, 1996, midair explosion that destroyed TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island, N.Y. Six years later, while the official investigation has been closed (or forever forgotten in "inactive pending" status), the nature of the explosion that killed the 230 passengers of the Paris-bound jumbo jet is very much on the radar of independent investigators. New book reveals evidence of terrorism in downing of TWA Flight 800: "First Strike" uncovers substantial new information, including a terrorist connection, about the fate of TWA Flight 800. Official TWA 800 Findings Challenged: Metals of "unknown origin" were found in the bodies of many of those who died in the crash. The FBI asked the Brookhaven National Laboratory to analyze pellets found in the bodies. They contained zirconium and barium, indicative of an incendiary device foreign to a Boeing 747 airliner. The NTSB acknowledges that the source of these pellets is unknown and that the FBI did not try to determine the source. TWA 800 and official lies: The news media should be demanding that the government identify the armada revealed by the radar and explain what it was doing. Those with the most clout didn't cover the news conference. They haven't learned Waco's important lesson -- the bigger the crime, the bigger the cover-up. C-SPAN covered the three-hour news conference live, showing the public how the establishment media cheat them by ignoring very important news. Why did Al Gore really drop out? After the events of Sept. 11, the story of how Al Gore helped subvert the investigation into TWA 800 and undermine airport security may well have been part of the calculus that put Al Gore out of the race. TWA 800 controversy heats up. Silenced no more! Intelligence professionals feel betrayed. The lawlessness of the Clinton administration is ignored. The potential for continued corruption of the intelligence apparatus is significant as long as the cancer remains within. TWA Flight 800: The cover-up begins to unravel. Flight 800 is mostly an ugly memory for people these days. The U.S. government issued an explanation that a fuel tank had somehow exploded. Yet, they flatly denied any evidence existed of foul play, including the possibility that Flight 800 had been blown out of the air by a missile. All but a few journalists accepted the government's version of events. Few bothered to investigate the numerous eyewitnesses, the radar records and the physical evidence that all suggested a strikingly different explanation of Flight 800's untimely demise. And those few who did question the government's version were made to look like fools or, worse, thrown in jail and prosecuted as criminals for meddling in an official investigation. A new book on this subject seems quite credible: Silenced: Flight 800 and the Subversion of Justice by Jack Cashill. Exploding hypotheses, Part 1. Exploding hypotheses, Part 2. Psychology of a cover-up: How could a conspiracy of such magnitude occur in modern America and why would the government and the media allow the conspirators to "get away with this"? A good question. The answer can be traced to two variables — one a person, Bill Clinton, the other a date, 1996. Everything else derives from the two. Our liberal allies in this cause would rather not hear this — and their support is all the more honorable for its lack of political reinforcement — but the story makes no sense without this understanding. CNN Has Two Black Eyes: CNN twice scheduled a program to examine evidence that TWA flight 800 was shot down by missiles. Twice they cancelled their guest, once giving his spot to one of the government's chiefs of the cover-up. Thanks to the Internet, many people knew of the evidence and wanted to see the CNN program. They now know that CNN is not concerned to provide hard-hitting news. CNN kills Cashill interview after feds decline to go on "The Point". Hours before the broadcast, after the studio was already set up, Cashill got a call from the show's producer telling him his appearance was scrapped because Jim Hall, ex-chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board would not go on the show with him. "Someone upstairs told her that responsible journalism means I can't appear on the show without a counter balance," explains Cashill. "But, ironically, it's OK for Jim Hall to appear by himself." Naturally, Mr. Cashill sees this as The collapse of American journalism: The call came in from CNN a few hours before show time. I was not to appear on "The Point" with Greta Van Susteren to discuss TWA 800. I can't say that I was surprised. Government critic dies of brain tumor: William Donaldson was expert in aircraft crashes. The fight goes on: Bill Donaldson eulogy. Detailed list of other Missile Sightings around Long Island. There seems to have been a coverup. Media silence. Selective reporting. Imaginary flagpoles. Some unexplained cause. Unanswered questions. A shoe bomber? Cracks appear in fuel-tank charade. A central figure is Jack Cashill, an expert on TWA Flight 800, which may have been shot down. What happened to TWA Flight 800? There seems to be some controversy about a shoulder launched missile. TWA Flight 800 was "shot down". Investigator makes his case in Washington. CNN: Where Are You on TWA Flight 800? Feds keep voice recorder data hush-hush. Fateful 4 seconds: Exclusive: Cashill and Sanders question if feds hid recorder data. Haunting evidence of missile attack: New video documentary makes compelling case for shootdown. Executive Order Hides TWA 800 Evidence. "Deadly Departure": Geoff Metcalf interviews veteran journalist Christine Negroni about TWA Flight 800 New evidence of missile attack: Metal plume seen emerging from side of doomed airliner. Investigator testifies to Congress: Donaldson not encouraged by his reception. Donaldson called conspiracy theorist. NTSB denies cover-up of plane crash cause. U.S. Stinger chief suspect. Were missile parts hidden away? New evidence of cover-up found by investigator. Is there proof of missile? Investigator releases new evidence. Was there a government cover-up? Former naval officer says airliner brought down by missile. How government stopped probers: Journalist, wife convicted of tampering with evidence. Sniffing out FBI's Red Herring: St. Louis dog exercise exposed as a diversion. Exposing FBI's red herring, part 2: From day one, despite ample eyewitness testimony and troubling FAA radar data, federal authorities suppressed virtually all talk of a missile. When, however, it was revealed that explosive residue was found on the plane, the authorities had to at least allow for the possibility of an explosive device. For a variety of reasons, none of them related to the evidence, those in charge preferred a bomb to a missile. The incredible shrinking climb. An open letter to John Ashcroft. Demise of the TWA 800 cover-up? akdart.com FBI and Anthrax: Another TWA 800 in the Making? The FBI's anthrax probe is looking like a repeat of its bungled "investigation" into the crash of TWA Flight 800. The bureau locked itself into a theory that an exploding fuel tank caused the crash. It strained to ignore hundreds of credible eyewitness accounts that showed that in all probability a missile had destroyed the aircraft in midflight. Other sources of information about TWA Flight 800: Your first stop should be TWA800.com Many of the articles mentioned above appear on World Net Daily. More TWA Flight 800 Articles by Jack Cashill. Flight 800 Independent Researchers Organization: Another excellent web site. TWA 800 Section at Newsmax The Crash of TWA Flight 800 The Flight 800 Investigation Papers TWA Flight #800 Plane Truth: A Private Investigator's Story TWA-800 Page at Free Republic TWA-800 Page at Press-Enterprise TWA-800 Page at Newsday TWA Flight 800 Disaster: Cover-up? TWA Flight 800 Information Center TWA-800 Page at American Patriot Friends Network TWA Flight 800 Was 'Shot Down' Cap Parlier's TWA-800 Page Here's another TWA 800 page. Other TWA 800 web sites listed by Aviation Safety Network. Many more links pertaining to TWA 800. Some of them are broken links, but it's well worth a visit. TWA 800 - Missile Website Roadmap: Another huge list of web sites. Opposing viewpoint: The U.S. Navy's Side of the Story American 587: Editor's Note: More and more often, when a disaster occurs, government spokesmen assure everyone that the event was just an "isolated incident". Sometimes this happens suspiciously soon, as in the case of American Airlines Flight 587, which crashed in New York City two months after the September 11 attacks. Federal officials went on TV within a couple of hours after the crash to claim that it was not a terrorist act. After any other crash, it has taken as long as a year to learn the official cause. The incident leaves a lot of unanswered questions, but there are also Many people are beginning to wonder if the July 4th [2002] shooting at the L.A. Airport was an isolated incident. Was the Oklahoma City bombing an isolated incident? Can any plane crash, explosion or attack on a crowd of people be considered an isolated incident these days? Was Richard Reid "Shoe Bomber No. 2"? Some experts believe Flight 587 was downed by More Editor's Notes: American 587 crashed before the Richard Reid "Shoe Bomber" incident. The screening of airline passengers did not include checking everyone's shoes when American 587 crashed. If the same event occurred today in New York City, is there any chance that any cause could be officially ruled out in a few minutes? Of course not. The official cause of the crash was, as I understand it, that the pilot flew the tail off of the plane by responding to the turbulence left by another plane that had been in the area two minutes earlier. I'm not a pilot, but it seems to me that (1) if turbulence is that much of a problem, there would be crashes at DFW airport every day, because DFW frequently has departures two minutes apart, and (2) if it was possible to break off the tail by overuse of the rudders, a test pilot would have discovered this at the factory several years earlier, and (3) the engines ordinarily do not fall off an airplane as a result of turbulence.  If the official explanation were true — and I'm saying it isn't — then aerial refueling would be impossible, and the Blue Angels couldn't fly like this. Remember, at that moment in history — just two months after the September 11th attacks — the United States was one plane crash away from a full-scale economic depression. It was vital to the economy that this incident was not portrayed in the news media as an act of terrorism, whether it really was or not. That seems to be the most likely motivation for a coverup — the belief that the general public (that is, the economy) wouldn't have been able to handle such bad news. Montreal man downed U.S. Plane, CSIS told. "Farouk the Tunisian" was involved, according to al-Qaeda, but officials insist the crash was accidental. Canadian Security Intelligence Service agents were told during five days of interviews with a captured al-Qaeda operative that Abderraouf Jdey, a Canadian citizen also known as Farouk the Tunisian, had downed [American 587] with explosives on Nov. 12, 2001. New: What made an Airbus rudder snap in mid-air? At 35,000 feet above the Caribbean, Air Transat flight 961 was heading home to Quebec with 270 passengers and crew. At 3.45 pm last Sunday [3/6/2005], the pilot noticed something very unusual. His Airbus A310's rudder – a structure 28 feet high – had fallen off and tumbled into the sea. In the world of aviation, the shock waves have yet to subside. The Mystery of Flight 587: The investigation seems to focus on the possibility that wake turbulence from a 747 jumbo jet which had taken off just minutes before Flight 587 had caused the damage to the plane and caused the crash. What is confusing to most knowledgeable aircraft investigators is that this is completely impossible. It is not possible for any type of turbulence to rip off the tail of an airplane, and then have it go out of control in such a way that both engines would also fall off. Update: The Mystery of Flight 587 (Part B). [Scroll down to reader comments] "I also don't buy the idea that the crash could have been caused by wake turbulence. As a B-47 pilot in the Strategic Air Command I made several minimum interval take-offs following one or more other B-47's with 15 to 30 seconds between airplanes. For several years SAC routinely made these training maneuvers. While the turbulence made for a pretty hairy take-off we never had any structural damage to the following aircraft." Why Did American Airlines 587 Crash? American Airlines 587 crashed soon after taking off from New York's Kennedy International Airport on Nov. 12, 2001, killing 265 people. Coming just two months after 9/11, this disaster raised a specter of renewed terrorism attacks, yet investigators quickly dismissed the possibility of foul-play. American 587: The Ghost of TWA 800. The FBI came out within a half hour of the incident to say there was no apparent terrorism, just a mechanical plane failure. Larry Klayman's Judicial Watch quickly issued a press release slamming the FBI for its snap assessment. Whatever you may think of Judicial Watch, on this one it batted a home run. How could any reasonable person come to any conclusion on this crash so fast? NBC's Robert Hager — NTSB prostitute? The actions of government officials constitute evidence. We need not know precisely what brought AA587 down to know when a cover-up is unfolding before our eyes on national television. When senior federal officials race to media microphones and begin chanting, even before fire and police have put out flames and began interviewing witnesses and looking for evidence, the American public can be assured a cover-up is in progress. The Crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in Queens: Hard scientific evidence proves the United States government is desperately trying to mislead the American public. The notion that the residual wake turbulence from a jumbo one and a half miles in front of American Airlines Flight 587, could have torn its vertical stabilizer off, is absurd. If that were even remotely possible, most of the world's fleet of "heavy" jets would have crashed years ago. Witness Tampering Alleged in Flt. 587 Probe. A group of eyewitnesses to the Nov. 12 [2001] crash of American Airlines Flight 587 are charging that the National Transportation Safety Board has engaged in deliberate cover-up; complaining that investigators have ignored their accounts of a fiery midair explosion and even tried to persuade some of them to change their story. Witnesses: AA Flight 587 Was on Fire Before Crash. A staggering 181 eyewitnesses told investigators that they saw American Airlines Flight 587 on fire before it plunged into a Far Rockaway, N.Y., neighborhood moments after it took off from Kennedy airport … killing all 260 people aboard. Shoebomber: American Airlines Flight 587. The plane exploded in midair over New York's Jamaica Bay. The Bush administration has announced the FBI believes Flight 587 did explode in midair and is working to determine the cause. The FBI has a video tape of this plane exploding in mid air and refuses to release it to the public. Flight 587 Preliminary Report: It is the firmly held opinion of U.S.Read that the NTSB failed early on in their investigation as they prematurely declared this crash an accident and then very quickly concluded that tail separation was the initiating event without properly analyzing all the evidence. Two hundred and sixty-five people died in the crash of FL587. Whether it is the second worst aviation accident in U.S. history, or the second worst terrorist act on U.S. soil (second only to U.S.Read's Flight 587 Preliminary Report, Part 1: The NTSB Hypothesis - Is The Basic Premise Flawed? U.S.Read's Flight 587 Preliminary Report, Parts 2 and 3: In contrast to NASA's Shuttle investigation, how did the NTSB search for and identify debris from FL587? The debris field from FL587 covered, at most, a few square miles on land and in Jamaica Bay. Did the NTSB conduct a thorough search for the debris comparable to the effort in the Shuttle Columbia investigation? Did they generate a list of every piece of debris found away from the crash site? Did they photograph this debris? The answer to all these questions is "no". U.S.Read's Flight 587 Preliminary Report, Part 4: The Tollbooth Video and the FBI's "Ongoing Investigation". No party outside the FBI and NTSB has yet to see the original video. Also, notice that the government sometimes calls this an accident investigation, and at other times it is considered a criminal investigation. New York City Council Hearings on Flight 587. The commonality in this particular case is that there was evidently fire, of some type, on the starboard (right) side of the aircraft, aft (back) of the wing, and we have witnesses here today that saw that. The NTSB is in great danger right now of working backward toward the answer they decided the day the airplane crashed. Feds Conceal Suspicious Facts About Recent NY Airline Crash. Experts cite evidence that the recent airline crash in New York was no accident despite "official" government pronouncements. Flight 587 Witnesses Blast Feds. New Yorkers who believe they saw American Airlines Flight 587 explode in flames before its tail sheared off have accused crash investigators of ignoring their eyewitness accounts and prematurely ruling out a terrorist attack. The Crash of Flight 587: I believe that a bomb or missile took down this aircraft and that it was a terrorist act. As I have shown with TWA 800 when you get a lot of eyewitnesses saying basically the same thing you have got to take them seriously. Flight 587 crash was no accident. American Airlines Flight 587, which came apart in the air over Long Island and crashed into homes in Rockaway, N.Y., was not an accident. The tail section and two engines do not fall off by accident. Here we go again. The National Transportation Safety Board has a story and it's sticking to it no matter what. The government agency claims American Airlines Flight 587 just fell apart in the sky inexplicably Nov. 12, [2001] over Belle Harbor, New York. No explosions. No evidence of sabotage. There's just one problem with the explanation. The NTSB is ignoring, once again, eyewitness reports to the contrary. Flight 587 - 2003 Update: The day of the crash, Chairman Blakey's comment that "all indications are that this is an accident" clearly showed the U.S. Government's bias. We believe that this bias, this rush to judgment, guided the NTSB down the wrong investigative path that saw them ignore the witnesses and at times discredit them. They have also misinterpreted the flight recorders and most of the other evidence. News articles about American 587 Numerous other articles about American 587. Crash Experts: Feds Too Quick to Rule Out Terror. Government officials should not be so quick to assure Americans that the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 was not a terrorist act, two longtime investigators of past plane tragedies have told NewsMax.com. Further, a former government inspector says regardless of whether Monday's crash was an accident or terrorism, it indicates a huge problem. American 587: Manipulation of the Public Mind for Political Purpose. If a bomb brought down the plane, it is an answer that would destroy what is left of the airline industry, plunging the economy into a deep recession, perhaps a depression, during a war for national survival. Video Interview with Witness Kenny Good: Kenny Good witnessed the departure of both engines and the vertical stabilizer only a few seconds from impact. At least six seconds after the Flight Data Recorder stopped recording. Attack at LAX: The Clock Struck 13: Tell us the truth. And if you don't have people who can tell the truth, or even recognize the truth, get some who can before it's too late and we lose all confidence in our government and our media. Over 180 Witnesses Saw Midair Fire Before Flight 587 Crashed: Most of the eyewitnesses to last November's crash of American Airlines Flight 587 have told investigators they saw fire and/or smoke aboard the doomed plane before it plummeted into a residential neighborhood in Rockaway, N.Y., the National Transportation Safety Board announced on Tuesday [6/4/2002]. Editorial on 587 by "The Wave" Editor: Soon after the crash, the NTSB proclaimed the crash an accident, removing the FBI from the investigative process. Who made that decision and why was it made so quickly? Flight 587 Update - Tears and Tales by Howard Schwach: [W]e are becoming increasingly convinced wake turbulence and pilot-over control are highly questionable theories. Numerous Flight 587 Witnesses Speak Out At "Wave" Sponsored Meeting Related? Abu Nidal Implicated In Lockerbie Bombing: A former associate of Abu Nidal has claimed the dead terrorist leader was responsible for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, casting doubt on the official explanation of the attack. Search for the Truth About Lockerbie. Synopsis: Pan Am Flight 103 was shot down over Lockerbie in an act of revenge for the Airbus civilian airliner that was shot down by the USS Vincennes a few months before Lockerbie and before the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war. Prior Knowledge of Sept. 11 Not Just Urban Legend: "What are you looking at?" asked the schoolteacher as she approached one of her freshman students. The boy, a young Palestinian, seemed captivated as he stared out the window across Brooklyn toward the lower downtown area of Manhattan. "Do you see those two buildings?" he asked while pointing toward the World Trade Center. "They won't be standing there next week." It was noon, Sept. 6, 2001. Be sure to visit U.S. Read, a web site which specializes in Flight 587 information. There is a huge section about American Airlines Flight 587 at www.TWA800.com. "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it." New An attack on American 612: The TWA 800 scenario almost happened again! What really happened to AA Flight 612. What makes the evidence particularly compelling is that the pilots apparently saw what the radar was reporting: ATC: Flare or a rocket? AA 612: It looked more like a rocket. ATC: American 612, how far away was it from your position? AA 612: It was about half way between us and the coastline when we first called that last center guy. More on Possible Surface to Air Missile Attempt Against Passenger Aircraft. Just as suddenly as the story was broadcast, it seemed to have disappeared from the media. Back to the Home page |
