TWA 800 documentary fans conspiracy flames

Was it supposed to be a mistake or were they after someone on the plane?

 

I don't think anyone claimed responsibility for first WTC attack. Just some investigative work led them to the culprits.

 

Very interesting.

It doesn't even have to involve a "cover-up."

Maybe it was just an incredibly complex case with multiple credible possibilities and the dissenting options are pushed aside so that the government can speak with "one voice."

And now the dissenting folks want their voices heard with their equally plausible explanation for how the plane may have gone down.

I'll watch it.

 

I believe a common theory is that it was shot down by mistake during a Navy training exercise in the area, but don't know the full details of the theory. Just a version I've seen discussed a few times over the years.

 

This is probably the one I'd buy.

 

The problem with that is keeping hundreds of sailors quiet.

 

That's probably the most plausible of the possibilities but like Inky said, how do you keep a ship full of sailors quiet for so long?

 

That's the version of it I've always heard and at the very least not been willing to dismiss out of hand.

 

Admittedly not a military man, but if this missile came from, say, a sub, how many of the sailors on board would even know if they hit something? Isn't that something that is just confirmed via radar? And maybe they thought that all they hit was some kind of target they were intended to hit (drone, for example). So there's no need to keep them all quiet, because they don't even realize what they were a part of.

 

But wouldn't the men on the sub, at the very least, know where the sub was when the missile was fired? Wouldn't be tough to put two and two together at that point, would it?

 

To my knowledge, subs carry strategic weapons, anti-sub weapons/torpedoes, and land attack Tomahawks, not anti-air weapons (AAW).

Plus most east coast sub tests are done off of Florida, not Long Island.

Most surface fleet east coast tests are done off of VA's coast, delmarva peninsula. A lot used to be done off Puerto Rico, but that was shutdown around 2003, making VA even busier these days.

 

Missile or no missle, I bet there was no official cover-up. Just a vague but real sense in the NTSB, FBI, et al. that nobody wanted to deal with the ramifications of a terrorist attack. The "fumes in the tank" theory doesn't seem wildly implausible and so it went.