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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
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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