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Tom Fitton: New TWA Flight 800 Records Reveal 30 Years of Stonewalling After a Clinton Era Disaster

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Posted by Skidmark 2026-07-28 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [386 views ] Top

1 Sadly, there's been a bad smell on this one from day one.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-07-28 02:34|| 2026-07-28 02:34|| Front Page Top

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When Politicians cover their mistakes, omissions and A$$es, we are the ones that suffer and/or die.

So over the next 5 Years, the Islamic terrorists decided they needed to go really big and so in our face that the DC Swamp could not hide it or cover up their success.

Posted by NN2N1 2026-07-28 05:50|| 2026-07-28 05:50|| Front Page Top

3 Another "bad smell" was hajji private airplane flying classes in Florida gone undetected by law enforcement prior to 9/11.

When I see the law enforcement term "it or they were on our radar" I always cringe a bit. Sorry, that's simply the way this old man rolls.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-07-28 07:33|| 2026-07-28 07:33|| Front Page Top

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There is also the unexplained private plane crash in your general WNC area during the US Nationwide ground halt of all planes.

2001-09-14 CESSNA

What was it doing in the air and was it a accident or a covered up take down?

Posted by NN2N1 2026-07-28 07:48|| 2026-07-28 07:48|| Front Page Top

5 ref # 3

Remember the DOJ/FBI/CIA Chinese Wall B? I think some of that was true, but it became the "end all be all" alibi for inattention and negligence in other places.

Just spit ballin' here but a lot of people did not want the public to imagine that that this might be a retaliation for the Iranian airliner shoot-down, making instant, wide-spread Iran war fever erupt domestically, so the ground-to-air sightings were suppressed it seems.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2026-07-28 13:17|| 2026-07-28 13:17|| Front Page Top

6 USS Vincennes shoot down 3 July 1988.
TWA 800 disaster 17 July 1996.

No "spit balling." Eye-for-an-eye possibility. Legitimate possibilities should never be totally discounted until validated evidence from multiple sources proves otherwise. And only then, archived for future use.

Some people call them "conspiracy theories." I call them healthy analytic thinking exercises.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-07-28 14:19|| 2026-07-28 14:19|| Front Page Top

7 Art Bell had open lines that week, and multiple people called in saying they saw the missile launch and strike Flight 800.

Posted by mossomo 2026-07-28 14:42|| 2026-07-28 14:42|| Front Page Top

8 A USAF tanker exploded over Carpentersville, IL 19 Mar 1982, killing 28 people. The cause was determined to be an electrical short in the fuel tank.

When the cause for TWA-800 was announced, I immediately thought of the tanker crash.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-07-28 15:03|| 2026-07-28 15:03|| Front Page Top

9 It's odd that the story does not contain the names of the important people on that flight. I forgotten who they were but it seems their were some important figures.

Posted by Woodrow 2026-07-28 19:27|| 2026-07-28 19:27|| Front Page Top

10 Wikipedia has a list, Woodrow, though none of them look important to me:

Notable passengers included:[23]

Michel Breistroff, French ice hockey player

Marcel Dadi, French guitarist

David Hogan, American composer

Jed Johnson, Andy Warhol's partner of twelve years, interior designer, and director

Pam Lychner, American crime victims' rights advocate and former TWA flight attendant, along with two daughters

Rico Puhlmann, German fashion photographer.[24] One of his clients, Polish fashion model Agnieszka Kotlarska (Miss Polski and Miss International), was originally supposed to be on the flight with him but backed out at the last minute. She was murdered a month later by a stalker outside her home.[25]

Courtney Elizabeth Johns, sister of future comic book writer Geoff Johns and the inspiration for the DC Comics superhero Courtney Whitmore / Stargirl[26]

Ana Maria Shorter, musician Wayne Shorter's second wife,[27] and the couple's niece, Dalila, daughter of singer Jon Lucien.

Jack O'Hara, executive producer of ABC Sports, along with his wife and daughter. He was going to France to supervise coverage of the Tour de France in what was to be his last assignment for the network after being let go the previous week.[28]

In addition, 16 students and five adult chaperones from the French Club of the Montoursville Area High School in Pennsylvania were on board.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-07-28 23:18|| 2026-07-28 23:18|| Front Page Top

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