The security guys are very good at recreating what they believe happened, bombs and missiles. Planes are being blown up and missiles fired at other planes. Let the mechanical proponents have an exercise in recreation.
Based upon the TWA 800 streak and mysterious blip at the same time, both could be related. What hypothesis could explain both? Cargo door could. It would be cheap, safe, and easy to test that idea. In the evenings before the anniversary, observations could be made of regular 747s taking off from Kennedy and passing the event spot at 13700 feet at 300 IAS. The large, short duration, sun reflective flash can be observed off the 747's forward fuselage, moving to engines, aft fuselage, vertical stabilizer, and winglets if 747-400. I have observed this flash many time from my vantage point living under a heavily travelled airway from SF to LA.
On the anniversary evening a C-130 carrying spare old 747 cargo doors or metal object of same size and shapes could fly at 13700 feet as fast as it could go, about 220 IAS, and at 8:31 PM on 17 July, lower the C-130 inward opening aft door and the crew could push out the eight foot by nine foot pieces of shiny radar and sun reflective metal. ATC radar and ground observers could watch to see the track of the object as it slows down horizontally land speeds up vertically in a parabolic curve to the ocean surface. Radar tapes could then be analyzed to see if the object matches the blips before TWA 800 disappearance off scope. Blip can be tracked to surface and matched to actual retrieved location of door. Ground observers can be queried to see if observed streak matches the TWA 800 streak. Several passes could be made in the sun reflective window between 8:20 to 8:50 PM.
A mechanical hypothesis would have been tested in a non destructive, safe, cheap, repeatable manner, inadvertent fuselage rupture forward of the wing on the right side. When the streak and radar blip are recreated at the same time and place as TWA 800, a strong case can be made that some part of the airframe flew off just before destruction and two mysteries solved.
Below is picture of Boeing 747 just as sun reflects off of nose and gives flash. If piece of fuselage were to depart it would appear as streak as it slows down horizontally and speeds up vertically.
Comment: Well, why not?
Contents
Boeing 747-131
Trans World Airlines Flight 800
Debriefing
Boeing 747-237B
Air India Flight 182
Debriefing
Boeing 747-121A
Pan Am Flight 103
Debriefing
Boeing 747-122
United Airlines Flight 811
Debriefing
The Type Airplane
The Damage Starts
The Radar Blips
The Sudden Loud Sounds
The Abrupt Power Cuts
The Fodded Engines
The Inflight Damage
The Missing Bodies
The Torn Off Noses
The Wreckage Plots
More Similarities
The Red Herring: Bomb!
Inadvertent Opening of the Forward
Cargo Door in Flight
Forward Cargo Door Section
Introduction
Introduction Photograph
Introduction Page
Big picture
More pictures.
(larger picture with DC-10 door also)
Boeing 747.html
747historycontents.html
747-121dimensions.html
747cargo door and nose
747specsheet.html
747seating.html
747crashes.html
cargodoorfaraway.html
pressurization1.html
pressurization9.html
aerodynamics.html
crashchart0.html
crashchart1.html
Airworthiness Directive 79-17-02.html
Airworthiness Directive 88-12-04
Airworthiness Directive 90-09-06
800summary
variousdooraccidents.html
forwardcargodoorpict.html
Boeing 747 nose picts right side cargo door
cargodoorfaraway.html
Bibliography:
DC-10page146.html
DC-10page147.html
DC-10photorippeddoor.html
DC-10page148.html
DC-10page151.html
DC-10photowreckage.html
DC-10cargodoorcrashp15.html
DC-10crashcontents.html
AI182essentials.html
182summary.html
AirIndiareportcontents.html
125sum.html
PA103essentials.html
103radarblip1.html
103cvrtext1.html
103scancvr1.html
103scandraw0.html
103blipsani.html
103drawrightleftani.html
103reportcontents.html
UAL811essentials.html
811bigholephotobetter.html
811page92conclusions3cause.html
811PS.html
811picture
More pictures of UAL 811 cargo door hole
811reportcontentpage.html
811skiesdoorcontents.html
811page65uncommandeddoor.html
811page67uncommdooranly1.html
811page68uncommdoranly2.html 800streakexplained.html
800radarbipdoor.html
800cargodoor.html
ntsbcommentlatches.html
800avweekintrigue.html
TWA800essentials.html
800newsreports.html
800newsreports1.html
800newsreport2.html
800newsreport3.html
800crashsitemap.html
800wxradar.html
800partsphoto
800engine3.html
800publicappeal.html .
800doorversusfire.html
TBA.html
crashsimilarvariables.html
TWA800PA103UA811.html
747jetroutes.html
747contrails.html
ejection.html
314summary.html
314accidentreport.html