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Subject: SLS: SNET: Report: Missile Hit TWA800 (fwd)

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>           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 
>
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