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TWA 800, JAMES KALLSTROM - and the "700 eyewitnesses"
The TWA 800 was the story about a 747 Boeing which allegedly fell out of the sky on July 17, 1996 (that is,
1883 days prior to
9/11). As the story went, 230 people on board were killed,
"the third-deadliest aviation accident to occur in U.S. territory". Now, as some will remember, the central controversy surrounding this (non?-)event, complete with sinister conspiracy-theories, was that hundreds of onlookers had witnessed the incident with their own eyes. In total (depending on which articles you may bump into) as many as 670 / or 700 people were able to catch a glimpse of the plane as it fell out of the sky. Of these, we were told, about 250 said they thought a missile had struck the plane. (Basic / primordial question: how often do YOU look up at random commercial airplanes flying in the sky above you?)
To make a long story short, James Kallstrom (then an assistant FBI-director in charge of the investigations) finally ruled that the "missile-eyewitness-reports" could not be trusted (causing a stir among the "conspiracy-theorist-crowd") and that no foul play was involved. What a story, eh? Well, here's my humble / if rather blunt take on this infamous airplane-disaster-tale ridden with the ubiquitous 'magic numbers' and oozing with pre-9/11 stench (so pardon the 'over-simplification' - but I hope that it will make sound sense to the readers of this forum).
The TWA 800 story was a 'general drill', a rehearsal of sorts in anticipation of the Grand 9/11 Psyop (what with its reliance on bystanders/ 'firsthand eyewitnesses' to sell the story) as well as a 'test-run' of the web of complicit 'civilian' agencies and 'Hollywood-crews' involved (NTSB, FAA, "grieving-family-members"-Crisis-Actors etc...). Moreover, it was designed to seed / implant in the public's consciousness the following notions:
A: "A short-lived airplane disaster WILL be witnessed by hundreds of people / sky-watchers."
B: "Even so, witness reports of such a brief event MAY or MAY NOT be a reliable source of information."
C: "At the end of the day, what REALLY matters is
the official investigation - and there's nothing Joe Public can do about it."
To be sure, this Kallstrom character is featured in my September Clues (
at the 24min mark) as he was interviewed "LIVE on CNN" on 9/11 by Aaron Brown (and later,
also by Peter Jennings on ABC). But there's more: Kallstrom is also featured (as the main host / narrator) of a movie made in 1999 about the first
"1993 WTC Bombing" :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1202985/ful ... t_ov_st_sm
So I think we can safely throw this Kallstrom character straight into our wastebasket of 9/11 hoax Supporting Clowns.
A few quick TWA 800 (media-reported) factoids:
"It was a muggy night when TWA Flight 800 left JFK airport at 8:19 p.m., bound for Paris.
Eleven minutes after takeoff [
at 8:30], the jetliner vanished from radar." (crashing into the sea,
9 miles off the shore of East Moriches, Long Island.)
"James Kallstrom was an assistant director of the FBI at the time of the TWA Flight 800 crash. He was in charge of the New York office and was assigned to head up the exhaustive investigation. He made a commitment to the families of victims to leave no stone unturned and to his friend and FBI colleague whose wife was a flight attendant on the plane."
"Initially, there was the thought that it may have been an act of terror, but that theory dissipated as hard evidence was recovered."
"It was a little over a year after the crash that the FBI ruled that there was no criminal act that destroyed the plane. But that finding has never satisfied the conspiracy theorists who claim TWA 800 was destroyed by a missile. Over 250 people said they saw something streaking toward the plane before the explosion. To date, no substantive evidence has been produced to support their belief."
http://pix11.com/local-news/stories/twa ... z31gdjmaIM
From Wickedpedia - we have more 9/11 magic numbers (... as much as this sickening and tiresome 'esoteric' stuff makes me cringe in pain - augh !):
"The last recorded radar transponder return from the airplane was recorded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) radar site at Trevose, Pennsylvania at 20:31:12 (total= 9). Thirty-eight (11) seconds later, the captain of an Eastwind Airlines Boeing 737 reported to Boston ARTCC that he "just saw an explosion out here", adding, "we just saw an explosion up ahead of us here...about 16,000 feet or something like that, it just went down into the water." "
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And, if you can bother to read this other absurd - yet telling - Wickedpedia extract concerning the TWA 800 eyewitnesses, here you go:
Witness interviews
Most witnesses to the accident had seen a "streak of light" that was unanimously described as ascending, moving to a point where a large fireball appeared, with several witnesses reporting that the fireball split in two as it descended toward the water. There was intense public interest in these witness reports and much speculation that the reported streak of light was a missile that had struck TWA 800, causing the airplane to explode.
These witness accounts were a major reason for the initiation and duration of the FBI's criminal investigation.
Approximately 80 FBI agents conducted interviews with potential witnesses daily. No verbatim records of the witness interviews were produced; instead, the agents who conducted the interviews wrote summaries that they then submitted. Witnesses were not asked to review or correct the summaries. Included in some of the witness summaries were drawings or diagrams of what the witness observed.
Witnesses were not allowed to testify at the court hearings.
Within days of the crash the NTSB announced its intent to form its own witness group and to interview witnesses to the crash. However, after the FBI raised concerns about non-governmental parties in the NTSB's investigation having access to this information and possible prosecutorial difficulties resulting from multiple interviews of the same witness, the NTSB deferred and did not interview witnesses to the crash. A Safety Board investigator later reviewed FBI interview notes and briefed other Board investigators on their contents. In November 1996, the FBI agreed to allow the NTSB access to summaries of witness accounts
in which personally identifying information had been redacted and to conduct a limited number of witness interviews. In April 1998, the FBI provided the NTSB with the identities of the witnesses but due to the time elapsed a decision was made to rely on the original FBI documents rather than reinterview witnesses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_800
So - basically - all those "TWA 800 eyewitnesses" were, and remain to this day,
anonymous entities. Marvellous, isn't it?
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A bunch of BC? It sure is, Mr Kallstrom, it sure is - and your ass stinks to high heaven!
