I see no reason to ascribe any authority to this document whatsoever, for two reasons:
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We don’t actually know where it came from or if it has been altered, and I have to tell you, I find it really curious that an NTSB document never once correctly spells the word “Hangar.” You would think that of all the organizations on the face of this planet, the one the least likely to mix up the word “hanger” with “hangar” would be one that investigates aircraftrelated issues.
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The reference to “A technician” who “Did an analysis” that suggested the presence of a missile is purely second hand. Let’s see that analysis and the technician’s name.
You say that something on radar showed a missile moving towards the plane. Show us that. I’ve seen a lot of radar information that claims to demonstrate a missile strike and every bit of it has been debunked. Unless we have objective evidence of this, it’s sort of a sticking point. We need to have objective evidence of a missile to even begin to think there may have been a missile.
I’m also intrigued by the new claim that witnesses saw something ascending all the way from the surface. If a missile had shot down TWA 800 and had been fired from a point visible to an eyewitness to the aircraft’s destruction, it would have been fired from a point in, or reasonably close to, New York City - not far beyond visual range, as USS Normandy was. A missile capable of shooting down a plane well above 10,000 feet is not something you pick up a Chuck’s Sporting Goods; you’d think someone would have noticed that puppy being fired if it was close enough that the eyewitnesses saw it ascend from the surface.
On a separate note, let me approach this, I dunno, more philosophically. You are, IMHO, making the classic error of all supporters or apologists for conspiracy theories (I acknowledge you are not a conspiracy theorist) - you are approaching it back-asswards. The beginning of proving an alternative theory to a historical event is NOT finding inconsistencies in another theory, like “this agency estimated a climb of 3400 feet and this one 1300 feet.” It’s finding objective evidence for the alternative theory.
The only evidence that would really work here is missile debris or eyewitnesses who saw the missile being fired. I know you say you don’t want to go there yet. But that’s where the theory MUST begin.