Lawsuit against Raytheon has been unfolding for years. Reports from pilots and others originally claimed of ordnance going from ground to altitude. All were said to have been wrong. I was sure it was a coverup over a missile test, and now it may be what happened.
Ronald Krick is the father of Oliver Krick, a 25-year-old student flight engineer killed in the crash. Krick has been joined in the suit by relatives of other deceased passengers and crew. The defendants are the Raytheon Company, the Lockheed Martin Corporation, and the United States government.
The Krick suit gained momentum when it absorbed information gleaned from a FOIA suit brought by Tom Stalcup, a no-nonsense physicist who has been pursuing this case since he was a grad student in 1996. To establish his claims Stalcup was granted subpoena power and was able to depose several key witnesses from within the investigation.
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—After the incident, the federal government released a false report contending that the explosion was the result of an electrical fire in the airplane’s center fuel tank.
—Only recently, thanks to the work of physicist, Dr. Thomas Stalcup, through his Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) litigation in Massachusetts federal court, has evidence emerged proving that TWA 800’s explosion was not caused by any defect in the airplane, but instead by an errant United States missile fired at aerial target drones flying nearby.
—The evidence unearthed by Dr. Stalcup establishes that the United States, including its agencies, such as the United States Missile Defense Agency (formerly known as the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization), the United States Department of Defense, and the United States Navy (the “Government Defendants”), acting in concert and working side-by-side with Raytheon Company and Lockheed Martin Corporation (the “Contractor Defendants”) and DOES 1 through 20, inclusive (collectively the “Defendants”) were testing the Aegis Weapons System and firing SM-2 missiles with live warheads from warship(s) at aerial missile targets off the coast of New York in close proximity to commercial airline flight paths. One such missile struck TWA flight 800, causing it to break apart and crash into the Atlantic Ocean, killing everyone aboard.
—Newly discovered evidence also shows that these Defendants engaged in a top-down cover-up to prevent the public from learning the truth about TWA 800. Proof of this cover-up, and of Defendants’ underlying culpability for the crash, was only recently unearthed by Dr. Stalcup after more than a decade of FOIA litigation against the Government Defendants.
A Pair of Lawsuits Promise to Expose the Truth Behind the July 1996 Disaster
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Going to start with this excerpt from the article you linked.;
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—his evidence reveals that the United States and its agencies, acting in concert with Contractor Defendants, conducted initial operational tests of the SPY-ID(V) radar upgrade with testing that involved firing at least one missile with a live warhead in May of 1996. This testing—firing live warheads off the coast of New Jersey and New York—was “a departure from prior practices.” The Department of Defense urged the missile system to proceed “as quickly as possible to production and deployment” to increase defense capabilities. Consequently, the Senate Committee approved the funding and the Navy accelerated testing and development of the next-generation Aegis missile system. Instead of conducting testing away from potential flight paths of other aircrafts, SPY-ID(V) was tested on an expedited basis in and around a land-based testing site called the
Combat Systems Engineering and Development Site (“CSEDS”) in New Jersey, which is a highly congested area.
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Is located in the middle of New Jersey and quite a distance from where TWA-800 was hit and crashed, off of Long Island.
That's also about halfway between Washington D.C. and New York City, so yes (duh ) a highly air traffic congested area, even when several miles off shore.
This link has a map showing where the CSEDS is in New Jersey. Click the " - " (minus) tab and the map zones out to show more of the local area, neighboring states, etc.
Combat System Engineering Development Site (CSEDS) located at 300 Centerton Rd, Moorestown, NJ 08057 - reviews, ratings, hours, phone number, directions, and more.
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This is the larger map you can get if you click the smaller one and then click the tab at upper Left "View Larger Map" - which shows several states, most of the NE USA. Note that CSEDS is just NE of Philadelphia.
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As for the missile the Navy was using and which it's claimed shot down TWA-800, here's what such looks like;
As you can see, it's a fairly large missile. With a warhead that would produce a much larger explosion than was claimed to have happened.
Here's an image of a typical launch;
And now, some text and data about the SM-2 missile;
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Standard Missile 2
The RIM-66C/D Standard MR (SM-2MR Block I) was developed in the 1970s and was a key part of the
Aegis combat system and
New Threat Upgrade (NTU). The SM-2MR introduced inertial and command mid-course guidance. The missile's autopilot is programmed to fly the most efficient path to the target and can receive course corrections from the ground. Target illumination for semi-active homing is needed only for a few seconds in the terminal phase of the interception. This capability enables the Aegis combat system and New Threat Upgrade equipped vessels to time-share illumination radars, greatly increasing the number of targets that can be engaged in quick succession.<a href="
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The plain English here is that the launch vessel first gets a radar fix on the target, feeds that data to the missile, and then guides it to the target based on radar update while the missile is in flight. As the missile closes in on the target, it's own systems will "see" the target and focus the drive to it.
So there are a couple of unresolved items here.
1) we could use exact data on which ship was firing the missile and what it's position on the map and relative CSEDS was.
2) We need to see data sowing that there was an actual radar target lock-on to flight TWA-800.
3) We need someone, or more, from the crew of that ship to come forward with witness testimony that the ship actually targeted the airliner and fired at it.
I haven't seen any of the above essentials and don't intend to chase down that rabbit hole because a US Navy missile shoot down is not case to make. I'm highly skeptical and the lack of the specifics I mentioned above underscore that.
On to next post with some links and data on what might have really happened.
