March 22, 2005

Can TWA 800 shoot down Hillary?

By Richard Baehr
On July 17th, 1996, TWA flight 800, headed for Paris, exploded over the Atlantic Ocean at 8:30 PM, just minutes after takeoff from JFK Airport.  Immediately, suspicion arose that the plane had been shot down by a missile fired from a boat offshore. Several dozen people on the southern shore of Long Island saw what appeared to be a rapidly rising object that seemed to change course up in the sky. Hundreds witnessed the explosion, or series of explosions that occurred soon after seeing the rising object. The investigation into the destruction of the plane was led by the FBI. Normally, air disasters are investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board, but their role was from the beginning a secondary one in this investigation. The FBI's involvement lent credence to the widely accepted belief that a criminal act (terrorism?) had occurred to bring down the plane.   Days after the TWA disaster, the Summer Olympics began in Atlanta. A week after that came the...(Read Full Article)