TWA Flight 800: Countdown to Fifteen Year Anniversary
Flight 800 Independent Researchers Organization (FIRO) is recognizing the fifteen year anniversary of the crash of TWA Flight 800 by publishing weekly articles and multimedia presentations on the facts surrounding the crash. For the next four weeks until the fifteen year anniversary on July 17, 2011, these articles will be summarizing the most important findings of federal and independent investigators alike.
East Falmouth, MA, June 20, 2011 --(PR.com)-- The FBI interviewed 182 people who reported seeing a rising streak of light in the sky moments before TWA Flight 800 exploded into a ball of flames off the coast of Long Island, NY in July of 1996. Most of these witnesses said the streak exploded at its apex which was where the jetliner was traveling. Some saw it hit the aircraft.
Federal investigators said the rising streak was the plane itself climbing sharply after exploding, but the law of conservation of energy doesn’t allow for such a climb because the FAA radar sites that tracked the jet did not record a necessary reduction in airspeed. According to the law, jetliners climbing in a gravitational field must either be propelled by adequate thrust or slow down. A 747 does not have enough thrust to climb anywhere close to the 12,000 feet per minute shown in government animations, so the only way Flight 800 could have climbed that steeply would have been to tap into its kinetic energy by decelerating.
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This first in the series of multimedia releases is in the form of a blog posting at FIRO President Tom Stalcup's website here: tomstalcup.com
Federal investigators said the rising streak was the plane itself climbing sharply after exploding, but the law of conservation of energy doesn’t allow for such a climb because the FAA radar sites that tracked the jet did not record a necessary reduction in airspeed. According to the law, jetliners climbing in a gravitational field must either be propelled by adequate thrust or slow down. A 747 does not have enough thrust to climb anywhere close to the 12,000 feet per minute shown in government animations, so the only way Flight 800 could have climbed that steeply would have been to tap into its kinetic energy by decelerating.
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This first in the series of multimedia releases is in the form of a blog posting at FIRO President Tom Stalcup's website here: tomstalcup.com
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Flight 800 Independent Researchers Organization
Tom Stalcup
774-392-0856
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Tom Stalcup
774-392-0856
flight800.org
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