Citing new evidence, families sue feds, Raytheon, Lockheed over 1996 TWA crash

Re:Citing new evidence, families sue feds, Raytheon, Lockhee... by jeffbee on Sunday September 25, 2022 @12:13PM (#32972802)

If there’s any meat in this case, they left it out of the filing. It’s basically the plane exploded, the navy owns missiles, QED. The part about the plucky retiree who unearths the truth is actually a big red flag.

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Re:Citing new evidence, families sue feds, Raytheon, Lockhee... by imglorp on Sunday September 25, 2022 @01:05PM (#32973413)

There's a third possibility: there was a missile but it came from terrorists from a country we would like to protect, for unrelated reasons.

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Re:Citing new evidence, families sue feds, Raytheon, Lockhee... by ipsin on Sunday September 25, 2022 @12:32PM (#32973003)

What about the Navy radar tracks for an intercepting missile, and how those, like witness accounts, were actively discounted and suppressed, in favor of a "no missile" narrative?

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Re:Citing new evidence, families sue feds, Raytheon, Lockhee... by ceejayoz on Sunday September 25, 2022 @12:38PM (#32973068)

> What about the Navy radar tracks for an intercepting missile

The radar tracks are detailed here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800#Missile_or_bomb...

They're not from the Navy (they're ATC tracks), they don't intersect, and one of them's going 30 knots.

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Re:Citing new evidence, families sue feds, Raytheon, Lockhee... by Gamecollector on Sunday September 25, 2022 @04:34PM (#32975877)

You've made about 20 comments on this thread and all of them demonstrate you haven't read a single word of the docket.

Plaintiffs now have the Navy radar tapes and they show and object hitting the plane then spiraling away from it.

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Re:Citing new evidence, families sue feds, Raytheon, Lockhee... by ceejayoz on Sunday September 25, 2022 @04:52PM (#32976081)

> You've made about 20 comments on this thread and all of them demonstrate you haven't read a single word of the docket. Plaintiffs now have the Navy radar tapes...

Pot, meet kettle. The docket actually says this:

"For example, Dr. Stalcup obtained several FBI records never released to the TWA 800 families or the public. One described an 'original [Navy radar] tape' showing an object “heading straight for TWA 800.'"

There's no claim they have the actual tapes. We'll see what the record they've got says; that they're not parading it to the media is, at the very least, interesting.

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