At 09:22 AM 01/03/2000 +0000, Peter James wrote:
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>Almost a year ago Ian Goddard wrote a convincing update on the TWA 800
>downing. I was at a party yesterday, talking to a 747 freight pilot, and
>discovered he knew a great deal about the TWa 800 saga as he had taken a
>deep interest in it.
IAN: The sad thing is that, while the missile
theory is strong inside the aviation industry,
almost nobody will talk about it in public.
They know all too well what happens to people
who do. The cover-up will probably succeed
by shear intimidation. An eyewitness who had
been interviewed by the FBI and who lives on
the LI shore recently spoke out, but observed:
"I watched the negative official and press reaction
to the reports by Mr. Salinger which more accurately
describe my observations. I have reasoned that if
Mr. Salinger, who is a former prestigious government
official, could be treated so poorly, what is in store
for me if I speak out. I am concerned for my security
and fear Government reprisal against me for what I
have seen." See http://twa800.com/pages/eyewitness.html
Early on I said that the abuse of Pierre Salinger,
James Sanders, and of myself by both the major
media and the government served primarily to send
a message to those who may want to speak up, that
if you do speak, you'll be sorry. The testimony
above confirmed that theory, since the abuse did
intimidate a witness with something important to
say. A witness I spoke to said that the others
with him don't want to speak about what they saw
(http://www.erols.com/igoddard/witness.htm#Runyan).
>He said also that had there really been the remotest suspicion of a problem
>causing the fuel tank to have exploded, every single 747 throughout the
>world would have been grounded instantly until the problem was either
>proven, and then rectified on every plane, or established to be unfounded.
>This was not the case. Not one single 747 anywhere was grounded for checks.
>Why not?
IAN: They did check wires on many 747s under
the pretext that frayed wires may have caused
the fuel tank to explode. However, nobody at
the NTSB has been able to explain how wires
outside the tank could ignite vapors inside
the tank. The NTSB simulated the alleged
ignition by placing an igniter inside a
mock-up tank, and even then, to get it to
explode they had to add hydrogen and propane
to the Jet A1 fuel! Clearly, the relationship
of the NTSB's test to reality is about zero.
See: http://www.flight800.org/spark.html
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