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btscott Senior Member Offline Posts: 458 Joined: Dec 26^th, 2009	TWA 800 Jun 19^th, 2013 at 3:19pm	Print Post
	Lou -- Have you seen this??? http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/18/twa-flight-800-investigators-break-silence-...


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LOU Beta Team Online 727,707,747,757,767= 40years of Boeings Posts: 1593 Location: Central PA, USA Joined: Mar 3^rd, 2010 Gender:	Re: TWA 800 Reply #1 - Jun 19^th, 2013 at 3:40pm	Print Post
	Thanks for the news on Flight 800. Somewhere back in this thread I think I stated that on the night of the event I was giving a simulator check ride and during the break I walked into the mechanics area where a radio ( WCBS - News Radio 880 ) was broadcasting the story about the crash and it was mentioned that a satellite had detected a missile launch in the area of the crash. It was never mentioned again! Lou

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btscott Senior Member Offline Posts: 458 Joined: Dec 26^th, 2009	Re: TWA 800 Reply #2 - Jun 19^th, 2013 at 3:54pm	Print Post
	Lou -- I remember seeing some sort of video or picture showing a vague ground to air missile type tracking thing. Also remember something about possible friendly fire???? There were a number of people who adamantly endorsed the ground to air missile cause. Bruce


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AirCanadaGuy Ex Member	Re: TWA 800 Reply #3 - Jun 19^th, 2013 at 3:55pm	Print Post
	Is this one of those "Bite off more then you can chew" moments? Seems really strange to me... � There are now too many questions which were supposedly answered with the NTSB report which are now (possibly) unanswered again. �


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LOU Beta Team Online 727,707,747,757,767= 40years of Boeings Posts: 1593 Location: Central PA, USA Joined: Mar 3^rd, 2010 Gender:	Re: TWA 800 Reply #4 - Jun 19^th, 2013 at 7:37pm	Print Post
	I'm not into conspiracies, but this is an area I have some empirical knowledge. If you remember the post in this thread about the 727 over Detroit that lost control and went supersonic, well the NTSB and FAA were very quick to blame the pilots saying they pulled circuit breakers and put the trailing edge flaps to 2 degrees to be able to fly the plane which was too heavy for FL390. Later, it was found that the real culprit was the Boeing rudder actuator. In fact, this faulty actuator was discovered to be the cause of several other "loss of control" crashes - A United 737 in COS and a USAir 737 in PIT. Both the 727 & 737 used the same actuators. In fact as an instructor, I saw many reports of 727 rudder actuator problems over the years - nothing was ever done since the pilots were able to keep the plane under control and land safely. In the TWA 800 event, I knew the crew very well and in fact spoke to the Captain just hours before the crash. I had flown that same 747 many times. None of the pilots believed the center tank story & in fact the FAA was never able to make the tank explode in several tests. One of the TWA pilots who was assigned to the investigation was someone I worked with for many years. He was a very serious and capable pilot and instructor. He was the one who took a small piece of the seat cushion that had some strange substance on it. The substance turned out to be some sort of rocket fuel residue. He was arrested and kept in house arrest for a year. This is a person I trust. Lets see who comes forward to blow the whistle.

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AirCanadaGuy Ex Member	Re: TWA 800 Reply #5 - Jun 19^th, 2013 at 8:15pm	Print Post
	It's too bad the aviation industry is so against "whistle blowers". I would have thought that would change after those incidents and many others.


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btscott Senior Member Offline Posts: 458 Joined: Dec 26^th, 2009	Re: TWA 800 Reply #6 - Jun 22^nd, 2013 at 12:44pm	Print Post
	Lou -- Jim Sanders must be the guy you referred to. Have you seen this site? All kinds of info in left column. http://twa800.com/pages/sanders_main.htm Bruce


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LOU Beta Team Online 727,707,747,757,767= 40years of Boeings Posts: 1593 Location: Central PA, USA Joined: Mar 3^rd, 2010 Gender:	Re: TWA 800 Reply #7 - Jun 25^th, 2013 at 6:02pm	Print Post
	Bruce, this is not who I was talking about. Sanders & his wife, who was a Flight Attendant, wrote a book on Flight 800. This other fellow kept a very low profile. Lou

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boeing247 Senior Member Offline Pilots: Looking down on people since 1903 Posts: 1506 Location: Southern CA Joined: Feb 23^rd, 2011 Gender:	Re: TWA 800 Reply #8 - Jun 25^th, 2013 at 7:07pm	Print Post
	Has there been any more word on whether or not they're going to reopen the investigation? I heard about this when the story broke, but nothing for a few days.

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gandy Senior Member Offline Posts: 266 Location: Near EGHH Joined: Mar 25^th, 2011	Re: TWA 800 Reply #9 - Jun 26^th, 2013 at 6:54am	Print Post
	I think we will have to wait for the program to air before we find out if they are going to reopen the investigation or not.

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