Bluegill
12th January 2004, 12:29 PM
Does anyone here know much about the various conspiracy theories surrounding the 1996 TWA flight 800 disaster off Long Island, New York? It's easy to find conspiracy theories about it on the Internet, but it's harder to find skeptics with aviation/missile-fire knowledge to debunk them.
One good counter-conspiracy argument is that, if it was "friendly fire," then the government (or whomever) would have to keep hundreds or even thousands of people quiet on the matter. A pro-conspiracy site I looked at today said that it would't be difficult--after all, they did it with the Manhattan Project.
But of course, the Manhattan Project was an effort launched to defeat a national enemy in a time of international crisis, conducted at a time when mass communication wasn't quite as efficient or prevalent as it is today. With Flight 800, not only would you have to keep the close witnesses silent for going on a decade now, but you'd have to keep them silent about something that was mass murder or, at the very least, mass manslaughter. Seems pretty unlikely to me.
So I guess my real question is, are there any really reasonable, credible investigators who have actually turned up any good evidence, or is it all just conspiracy nuts with just another conspiracy? Thoughts?
One good counter-conspiracy argument is that, if it was "friendly fire," then the government (or whomever) would have to keep hundreds or even thousands of people quiet on the matter. A pro-conspiracy site I looked at today said that it would't be difficult--after all, they did it with the Manhattan Project.
But of course, the Manhattan Project was an effort launched to defeat a national enemy in a time of international crisis, conducted at a time when mass communication wasn't quite as efficient or prevalent as it is today. With Flight 800, not only would you have to keep the close witnesses silent for going on a decade now, but you'd have to keep them silent about something that was mass murder or, at the very least, mass manslaughter. Seems pretty unlikely to me.
So I guess my real question is, are there any really reasonable, credible investigators who have actually turned up any good evidence, or is it all just conspiracy nuts with just another conspiracy? Thoughts?