William S Donaldson, Cdr. USN/Ret. 39175 Cobrum’s Wharf Road Avenue, Maryland 20609
February 19, 2000 Mr. James E. Hall
In the last several months I have reviewed the Islip ASR-8 radar data transcribed to the TWA Flight 800 crash investigation record. By precisely overlaying the radar sweep by sweep contact data over the aircraft debris field, that your investigation has attempted to keep secret more than 3 1/2 years, three facts can be immediately ascertained. 1) The crash sequence was initiated by a missile hit passing left to right through the aircraft. 2) A distinct missile debris field was created wholly separate from the three aircraft fields. 3) Both the CIA and the NTSB animated videos are untruthful since neither are supported by the radar evidence. Missile Hit The first two radar sweeps of Islip’s ASR-8 (recorded after TWA 800’s breakup sequence began) at 20:31:16.22 and 20:31:20.91 are the classic radar proof of a missile hit on an aircraft. Within seven seconds of missile impact on the aircraft, the radar shows a stream of high velocity metal separating laterally as far as 3200 feet to the southwest from the aircraft track. The ejecta crossed the composite ambient wind line at a 70-degree angle and diverges on a 120 degree opening angle from the aircraft heading. The lead metal had to be the heaviest piece of missile body. FBI missile team Special Agents Bongart and Otto were told specifically by military experts in 1996 to look for this very radar sequence in order to find a missile body. They were informed that the 2 9/16 inch diameter Stinger Missile would not be seen in flight by an ASR-8 radar before it hit the aircraft because of the missile’s smooth shape, minimum reflective surface and short flight time. However, on impact, and after warhead detonation, the missile body would emerge as a high energy, aerodynamically unstable, twisted, bent and sharp edged metal artifact with a very high rotation rate. These are all factors that highly accentuate radar reflectivity, which would make it suddenly visible to radar. The missile’s warhead, guidance section and fins would be absent from the missile body after it passed through the aircraft. After water impact, once found during the FBI's secret missile search, it is unlikely a layman or even an FBI Agent would easily recognize that artifact as anything other than crash debris. A Field of Its Own As I predicted in 1997 and as Military missile experts privately told FBI Agents in 1996, the missile’s extreme energy level would carry it clear and create its own separate debris field. This is precisely what the radar video captured. The missile established a debris field west and south of the Red, Yellow and Green debris areas. Radar shows lighter pieces falling into it for over 2 minutes and 30 seconds to the west of CW504. Centered near 40º 38’ 20" North and 72º 40’ 15" West, this fourth field is approximately 1.6 NM southwest of the aircraft nose impact point and 2.8 NM southwest of main body ocean impact. The NTSB made no effort at recovery in this area. The FBI’s records and maps, left aboard the contract boats handling the secret missile recovery effort, prove the FBI was specifically looking for a missile body as well as the stinger missile first stage pictured in their operations manual. Military missile experts did detailed computer modeling in 1996 for the FBI. This work clearly predicted a Stinger missile intercepting TWA flight 800 would pass through the aircraft and impact the ocean between 1 and 3 km from the explosion point. This range ring is clearly depicted on the precision maps, as is the missile’s maximum in-range launch diameter. Records in my possession indicate the last scallop boat the NTSB paid to conduct the secret FBI search for Stinger missile components in this area, was the "Christian Alexia". Ironically, she was one of two boats where FBI Agents tried to precipitously shut down operations on 30 April 1997, prior to notification from the chain of command. Agents implied they could use force to do so. Both Captains prevailed through counter threats of force and threats of filing "Piracy on the High Seas" charges against the embarked Agents. Suckering the Media Both the CIA and the NTSB produced and published false video simulations of the terminal portion of TWA Flight 800’s crash sequence much to the liking of television producers. Neither was remotely supported by the radar. The radar loses contact on the aircraft main body directly over its debris field location, eight radar sweeps or 37.5 seconds after the initiating event. This is directly supported in NTSB Exhibit 22c and is entirely consistent with the ballistic trajectory of such a free falling mass. Captain DeBow, skipper of the NOAA ship RUDE, will testify he was able to find, map and radio in (to FBI and NTSB) the position of the main body within a few hours after beginning his search. This was possible because his shipboard computers, using standard ballistic fall calculations, told him precisely where to search with side scan sonar. Such a ballistic trajectory would transcribe a free-fall path about 22,500 feet in length at airspeed not greater than 350 knots. Both the CIA and NTSB hypothetical climb theories add more than a 6,000 ft. to that distance, by insisting, without one iota of physical evidence, the nose-less aircraft maintaining wings level aerodynamic stability, climbed over 3,000 ft. or 1,500 ft. respectively. While those climbs may meet the political requirement imposed by the administration to discredit hundreds of witnesses in the eye of a non-technical press corps, they are in-fact, nonsense. The CIA crash profile would leave the main body at 15,000 ft., directly over it’s ocean impact point at 38.5 seconds. This would require a vertical plunge at 2.9 times the speed of sound to hit the water and beat Islip’s 9th radar sweep, 4.69 seconds later! Similarly, NTSB’s fanciful scenario would require a mach 1.5 decent. Needless to say, neither theory compiles with the physical laws of the known universe. See attached diagram. Analysis of Exhibit 22c, Page 1, Page 2. The Found and Lost Scavenge Pump NTSB working documents in my possession indicate that TWA Flight 800’s only fuel scavenge pump was found with center wing tank parts at 40º 39’ 46.4" N and 72º 32’ 26.8" W, prior to November 1996. The problem is, it went missing just in time to make it a "special interest" item in the FBI trawler operations manuals. FBI Agents were instructed to find it along with Stinger missile parts. Even though the wiring and motor for this pump is outside the tank, your public relations staff managed to successfully hoodwink the media into belief that this demon pump somehow blew up the aircraft. NTSB’s position is rather odd because five independent sources (that include FBI Agents, Crash Investigators, Maintenance Personnel and even Family Members) indicate, when viewing the recovered bulkhead where this pump was mounted, that they found it clean and without any signs of metal failure. If true, I see only two possibilities: 1) it’s another TWA 800 miracle event - the pump unbolted itself from its tubing and from its bulkhead during the crash and someone filed a false finding report, or; 2) someone helped it go missing, and deleted the original record. It is now my belief, Mr. Hall, that your rabid efforts to prosecute those who leaked information to outside investigators was undertaken in part to provide protection for those who perpetrated this ruse. A permanently missing scavenge pump makes a perfect foil for the undiscovered mystery spark that lit your hypothetically explosive Kerosene. Mr. Hall, its obvious from the Rand Corporation’s most recent public statements, such as "NTSB near the breaking point", that you intend to use an incompetence defense to explain mission failure in the TWA Crash Investigation. I was present in the Congressional Hearing in which Rand Corporation made the ludicrous statement that, "air-crash investigations are getting harder." Air-crash investigations haven’t changed one wit since the introduction of turbine power. Air-crash investigations only become "hard" when they are severely politicized to preclude findings detrimental to Washington politicians. Alaska Air flight 261 is the perfect case in point. Both ULD pingers worked as they always do. Both black boxes were recovered from 600 ft. of water in four days. Witnesses statements describing the aircraft in an inverted spin prior to impact were immediately found credible by investigators and validated by the flight data recorder. Nationwide, FAA accomplished appropriate inspections for defective parts and made changes in operating procedures less than two weeks from the time of the crash. Not one federal official paid any attention to the surviving family members. A job well done! But then again, the Clinton White House stayed clear of this one, Alaska Air flight 261 wasn’t shot down by missile fire fifteen weeks before a presidential election. Mr. Hall, I would suggest the following course of actions:
Sincerely,
William S. Donaldson cc: twa800.com
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