Spoiler Alert! What were your thoughts on the documentary about flight TWA 800?

Conspiracies don’t say it was a major accident; conspiracies come up with farfetched explanations.

Really, if there was someone who needed to be taken out, it’s a lot easier to arrest them on the ground and have them disappear. If there was someone who was going to shoot them down with a missile, while do it on take off? Why not do it out of sight of the coast line?

My feeling about this show (offering a theory about flight 800) is pretty much the same as I feel about most other conspiracy theories.

They are utterly ridiculous.

For this to have been a conspiracy – and particularly one that held for 18 years – the “authorities” (whoever they were) would have had control thousands and thousands of people both pre-incident and the investigators after the incident to keep them quiet.
And to fake the reports. And to suborn the FBI and the NTSB. And so on and so forth.

I can’t believe for a minute that in the 18 years since, not one person would have spoken up with some iota of evidence.

I would go with the Ockham’s Razor theory of investigation.

We know who deep throat was.

@elbanditoroso You don’t see the explosion as evidence of an outside impact?

I believe it is true. But then again, I am still waiting for a non-fiction version of the Warren Report

The wreckage suggests an explosion in the center fuel tank, as assumed. A missile would only knock out one engine or blow a hole in the plane somewhere else. Reasoning about missile climbing to collide with plane is inconclusive considering actual damage.