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- Speculating on what qualifies as evidence in a (hypothetical) NTSB investigation.
- Drawing conclusions about attention seeking documentarists, without having seen the documentary?
- Speculating about whether or not the investigation will be re-opened.
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Vegard - Have you seen the new Flight 800 Documentary?
I'm certainly interested in seeing it if the Documentary happens to get shown on a cable channel that I receive.
However, if I may be so
bold as to speculate myself
(avert your eyes as necessary)
From what I've seen so far, I don't place much stock in regard to this new documentary.
I've seen an interview (on CNN) done with Hank Hughes, one of the former NTSB investigators, who is one of the six investigators pushing the new documentary.
And it was my impression that the Flight 800 documentary is essentially just pushing some old conspiracy theories.👎
Hank Hughes mentioned the following points as issues that the NTSB should address and research further:
1) Radar analysis (as Mike Rotch mentions above, this seems more like speculation rather than new evidence, but if there is something new, then by all means it should be looked at). The "evidence" that the radar shows debris being ejected from the aircraft is nothing unusual. The plane's fuel-tank exploded, broke the plane in half, and sent pieces of aluminum/plastic/luggage/etc. in all directions.
2) Eyewitness accounts (nothing new as far as I heard, this seems more like cherry-picking certain eyewitness accts to promote a specific theory) I also understand that some of the eyewitness accounts may have seen two objects in the sky, and may have mistaken one of them for a missile even though it was either the front half or the back-half of the plane after it broke in two.
3) Claims that evidence was tampered with (actually, Hank's claim is that he saw that some evidence was "disturbed", and so Hank is claiming that this evidence "disturbance" was done for nefarious purposes) (without more specifics as to what was "disturbed" I feel that this issue is just blowing smoke. Of course, some of the evidence was "disturbed" while the NTSB/FBI investigators were trying to put the plane back together. That's what they were trying to do, piece the plane back together. I've seen pictures of the finished result and there's thousands and thousands of small and large pieces, so I'm sure that some were re-arranged during the investigation).
4) Cover-up of evidence indicating external explosion (maybe the documentary explains this further, but from what I've seen/heard, there was no "cover-up" of any evidence indicating an external explosion since there was
NO evidence indicating an external explosion or a missile strike. All of the evidence points towards an internal fuel-tank explosion. Both the FBI and the NTSB looked long and hard for any evidence of a missile stike on the plane's fuselage and they never found any indication of one.
5) the FBI initially said that there was a possibility of a terrorist act, but later changed their mind and said that there was no evidence of this (somehow, the new Documentary takes this as evidence of a cover-up. I saw another interview with James Kallstrom (the FBI agent in charge of the Flight 800 investigation), who said that initially, they very much worried that there was a possibility that a terrorist act was involved, and therefore they spent many hours investigating this very possibility. Eventually, they decided (the FBI and the NTSB) that there was no evidence whatsoever that the downing of the plane was due to a terrorist act. Therefore, of course the FBI changed their "tune" and stopped saying that there was a "possibility" of a terrorist act.
So basically, my "speculation"
is that this Flight 800 Documentary is just a re-hash of old conspiracy theories. We shall see.
Respectfully,
GTsail
