Time: Tue Mar 11 06:43:15 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA27462; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 06:15:07 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 06:31:47 -0800 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: SNET: Report: Missile Hit TWA800 (fwd) <snip> > Report: Missile Hit TWA Plane > >March 10, 1997 > >RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) -- Newly disclosed evidence >``points to a missile'' as the cause of the >explosion that killed all 230 people aboard TWA >Flight 800 off New York's Long Island, The >International Press-Enterprise reported today. > >The evidence includes reddish residue found on >several seat backs that laboratory analysis showed >to be ``consistent with solid missile fuel'' >ingredients, the newspaper said. The newspaper cited >federal documents it said were obtained by a >free-lance private investigator, James Sanders. > >The FBI and National Transportation Safety Board >documents and investigative sources indicated the >plane may have been a victim of a terrorist missile >or ``friendly fire'' -- a Navy weapon gone astray, >the newspaper said. > >The FBI repeated that it had no proof of a missile, >although it has not ruled one out as a possible >cause of the July 17 crash. The Navy again denied >any role in the disaster. > >Investigators say a missile remains one of three >theories, along with a bomb or mechanical failure. > >The paper also said Richard Russell, a retired pilot >who has espoused the missile theory since August, >claims he has copies of radar tapes from the Federal >Aviation Administration that show a fast-moving >object on a collision course with the plane. > >The paper said Russell plans to make the tapes >public later this week. Russell also told The >Associated Press he had such tapes but said he does >not intend to release them. > >FAA spokeswoman Diane Spitaliere said the agency had >sent all such materials to the NTSB. > >The newspaper said Sanders obtained samples of the >seat fabric from sources close to the investigation >and had it privately analyzed. > >The components, the paper said, were magnesium, >silicon, aluminum, calcium, zinc and other metals, >``consistent with a missile's internal components >and wiring.'' > >Sanders, a former Seal Beach, Calif., police officer >who specialized in auto accident investigations, >told the AP that the fact that his wife works for >TWA as a flight service manager in New York had no >bearing on his activities concerning the crash. > >Now in retirement in Williamsburg, Va., he said he >became involved in the case ``more out of curiosity >than anything.'' > >Sanders also is co-author of two books about >American and allied prisoners of war left behind in >wars and has testified before Congress on POW-MIA >topics. > >James Kallstrom, the FBI's chief investigator of the >explosion, declined to discuss the newspaper report >today. > >The paper quoted him as confirming that the reddish >residue was found on seats -- but denying that it >had anything to do with missiles. > >``There's a logical explanation but I'm not going to >get into it,'' Kallstrom told the newspaper Friday. > >In November, he angrily denounced the friendly fire >theory as ``pure, unadulterated nonsense,'' and NTSB >chairman Jim Hall called it ``unfounded and >irresponsible.'' > >Navy officers and former officers argue that because >a ship's crew and hundreds of other people in the >communications network would know within minutes of >such a missile firing, there is no way it could be >concealed from Congress, the public and the news >media. > >AP-NY-03-10-97 1427EST > >-> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo@world.std.com >-> Posted by: KALLISTE@delphi.com > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this ========================================================================
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