Originally Posted by
mike734
Rickair7777 why would you spend one second rebutting my post? What is your interest in the incident? Are you opposed to re-examining the evidence?
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You are the kind of voice that seeks to silence those who raise legitimate questions. How about you shut up for a while and stop opposing rational inquiry.
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Originally Posted by
rickair7777
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Grow the hell up 737 CA. Seriously consider if you're behaving like a responsible adult member of society and the aviation community. Frankly I haven't been this PO-ed by anything I've seen on APC in a long time. I said before I expect this kind of thing from certain sectors, but not from the likes of you.
Yeah, don't feed the trolls. For some reason people get really emotional about stuff like this which makes it easier to suspend rational analysis. I'd hate to share a cockpit with somebody that took frequent trips to crazytown.
In case anybody has lesiure time, this is actually a pretty surprisingly well done synopsis about it, and has nice video regarding the flash point experiments, PETN contamination issue (was only trace findings) and multipath interference that gave the "missile ghosting" on radar.
Seconds From Disaster - S02E10 - TWA 800 - YouTube
I usually find Nat Geo stuff really fluffy so when this came out it was a nice surprise.
I remember also reading several years ago a book about it called "the spark that killed 200 people" which was also a quite well done documentation about the issues regarding the investigation (perhaps some should read this instead of talking to "federal friends").