(from Free Republic)

Eyewitnesses to the tragic crash of TWA Flight 800 will hold a joint press conference Monday, supported by three separate groups of independent crash researchers. The eyewitnesses will tell their stories and the independent researchers will discuss the current progress of their investigations. While each group differs in some of the details of their analysis and conclusions, they are united in the belief that the NTSB's theory is a complete fabrication, unsupported by the evidence uncovered so far and that other evidence is being withheld or ignored by the NTSB and FBI either through sheer incompetence or through an overt desire to avoid the embarrassment of the real cause of this tragic crash. Presenting at the press conference will be:

Eyewitnesses - A number of the 755 eyewitnesses interviewed by the FBI will be present to tell their story about how they were ignored and how the CIA video, widely played in the national media, bears no relationship to reality. The 755 eyewitness statements were only recently released by the NTSB, who themselves only recently got access to them from the FBI, 3 1/2 years after the crash. When you read the witness statements you will understand why the FBI held these statements as Top Secret for 3 years- they completely refute the CIA video and the NTSB center fuel tank theory and to the average reader will make clear that a missile was responsible for this tragic crash. The eyewitnesses were barred from the December 1997 public hearing and therefore need to be heard at the Final NTSB hearing on August 22-23.

James Sanders - The journalist who, along with his wife, was prosecuted last year for receiving a piece of seat fabric and having it tested at an independent lab to determine if it contained residue of rocket fuel. Mr. Sanders will present photos of what he believes is evidence of tampering with evidence by the FBI and NTSB.

Dr. Tom Stalcup - Chairman of the Flight 800 Independent Researchers Organization (FIRO) Mr. Stalcup will discuss his organization's frustrating efforts to pry information from the NTSB and FBI over the last 3 years. Notwithstanding the clear application of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), these agencies have systematically stalled, delayed, lied and even stubbornly refused to comply with orders from their own FOIA appeals processes. These unprecedented refusals have finally forced FIRO to file a lawsuit in U.S. District court to force the FBI to comply with one of their FOIA requests.

Cmdr. W. S. Donaldson, USN-Ret. - Chief investigator for the Associated Retired Aviation Professionals (ARAP). This group, which includes many aviation professionals with extensive crash investigation experience and senior retired military officers including Adm. Thomas Moorer, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, believes the aircraft was shot down and will present additional physical evidence.

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), July 16, 2000

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"755 Eyewitnesses" SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY FIVE EYEWITNESSES! My GOD, what is the NTSB trying to hide? I don't understand why they can't just admit it was an errant US missle or something. It has to be really deep, a lot deeper than we can even imagine, to try and brush off 755 eyewitnesses accounts. I'm thinking UFO. Okay, not really, but that's how bizarre it has to be...don't you think? I think if it was simply a case of the plane being hit by those Coast Guard (or was it Air National Guard?) exercizes out there, they would just come right out and admit it. What's the big deal? So they take some slack, pay some damage suits..I can't understand it..really. There HAS to be more to this somehow. Just boggles my mind how they even got away with saying "nope, that was something flying AWAY from the aircraft after it was hit" when EVERYONE saw it flying TOWARDS the aircraft.

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), July 16, 2000.

They are only following their leader, you know, the one who said, "I never slept with that woman, Miss Lewinsky". Lots of people believed him until the blue dress with the presidential goo stain on it was presented as evidence.......

-- (sis@home.zzz), July 16, 2000.

kinda makes you wonder just who was on that passenger list, and what they knew, don't it?

-- squirrely (chiggers@itch.bug), July 16, 2000.

I just think if the government were looking to eliminate someone on that plane, they could have done it in a much easier way. And if it had been a terrorist act, I think they would have played that up as a way to secure us and watch us with our permission even more. I still can't help thinking this was some kind of target shooting from space. That, or maybe someone on that plane was carrying a vial of Anthrax and opened it..heh..it's got to be something really strange.

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), July 16, 2000.

Good stuff on the crash at...

http://pub5.ezboard.com/fyourdontimebomb2000.showMessage? topicID=7108.topic

kritter, one of the theories is that this was a terrorist attack, but the terrorists never took credit for it 'cuz they offed the wrong plane - too embarrassing. There was another plane full of foreign nationals due to leave NYC at the same time as TWA 800 that could have been the real target.

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), July 17, 2000.

Interesting theory I hadn't heard before, thanks Brooks.

Notice btw that we heard NOTHING about this meeting of the eye witnesses on TV. Not a word, nadda. I would think this would still be newsworthy enough. Who's put the kabash on Flight 800 news?

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), July 18, 2000.

I find it interesting that * Beatty, Charles, 50, senior systems engineer with the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Va.; of Spotsylvania, Va * was on that flight.

-- A. B. Leaver (Awake_one@yahoo.com), June 17, 2002.