Interim Report on the Crash of TWA Flight 800

by Cmdr. William S. Donaldson, USN Ret.

Interim Report on the Crash of TWA Flight 800 and the Actions of the NTSB and the FBI

By

Cmdr. William S. Donaldson, USN Ret.

In cooperation with Associated Retired Aviation Professionals

For the Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure

Subcommitte on Aviation, U.S. House of Representatives, July 17 1998

"I would like to join the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Thomas Moorer*, in calling for Congressional Hearings into the cause of the crash of TWA Flight 800.... If you have 2 or 3 eyewitnesses to a murder, you have a very strong case in a court of law. In this case there are hundreds of eyewitnesses who are convinced they saw a missile shoot down Flight 800. They deserve to be heard and not be summarily dismissed." ------ *[ Moorer connected to recent sarin-in-Vietnam allegation. ]

"On March 11, 1997, Mr. Clinton signed Executive Order 13039, that removed the personnel in the Navy units assigned to the TWA FL800 recovery mission, from the protection afforded by Chapter 71, Title 5 of the United States Code. This particular law is commonly referred to as the "whistle blower protection act". The reason cited for the Executive Order was "National Security"."

appended below the summary.

Summary

The preponderance of facts in this report support the following conclusions:

1. That TWA FL800 was intentionally destroyed by a powerful, proximity fused, airbursting, anti-aircraft weapon launched from a postition approximately one nautical mile off shore and three nautical miles east of Moriches Inlet Long Island, New Yourk

2. That TWA FL800 waa also engaged seconds later by a second missile fired from a closer position to the south of TWA FL800's track.

3. That senior FBI Agents were close eyewitnesses to the shoot down. That those FBI Agents believed the aircraft was shot down and that those FBI Agents did not file eyewitness reports, FBI 302 forms.

4. That no evidence has yet been developed that implicates the US military as participants in the loss of TWA FL800. [for those who believe it was a botched military exercise, see Sanders _The Downing of Flight 800_. or www.deeppolitics.com , or flight 800 maillist]

5. That the Unted States Justice Department moved on 24 July 1996 to suborn Title 49 U.S. Code by denying access of Parties to the Investigation and NTSB Investigators to eyewitness and real evidence.

6. That the White House's early public statements, made without justification, impugned or ignored eyewitness statements to discredit missile sighting reports.

7. That terrorists communique's in the Mideast that predicted the time of the attack on the United States, were also treated with contempt as being totally unfounded by White House spokespersons.

8. That United States was under specific threat of terrorist attack against airports and airliners in the New York area in retailiation for the conviction of World Trade Center conspirators.

9. That the Administration was aware that a sighting of a probable unguided missile was made on the evening of 17 Novenber 1995, by two airline crews from Lufthansa and British Airways at altitude near Long Island.

10. That FBI Agents have not specifically identified surface radar targets were at the geographic points eyewitnesses indicate as the source of the missile fire.

11. That one unidentified surface radar target fled the scene of the shootdown at 30 knots. When TWA FL800 exploded, the contact was only 2.9 nautical miles (nm) away.

12. That the 30-knot surface targhet avoided visual contact with other surface targets on a heading of 203 T, and did not stop or turn to provide assistance.

13. That FBI counter-terrorism Agents briefed the NTSB Operational Factors Group, including the Parties to the Investigation, in January of 1997, specifically pointing out where a missile was launched.

14. That the FBI is in possession of eyewitness testimony that proves, without doubt, TWA FL800 came under missile attack and refuses to release this information.

15. That the FBI is in possession of high explosive chemical residue evidence on interior and exterior parts first identified by bomb sniffing dogs at Calvarton then verified as a specific high explosive by chemical sniffers at Calverton.

16. That the FBI leadership attacked the validity of their own chemical residue findings after using the same FBI Laboratory personnel who were respnsible for falsifying laboratory evidence in hundreds of previous cases.

17. That the FBI is in possession of shrapnel removied from the bodes of victims and is holding laboratory findings secret.

18. That the FBI contrived a plausible excuse for the presence of high explosive residue in the aircraft as having been contaminated by bomb sniffing dog training alleged to have been done in St. Lous on 10 June 1996.

19. That the FBI had no answer as to why the dog handler's placement of training samples in the aircraft did not match the locations where the contamination was found on aircraft parts.

20. That NTSB leadership began a public media campaign in April 1997, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that a center wing tank explosion caused the mishap.

21. That the NTSB officials directed a NASA laboratory to immediateley stop testing when nitrates (expolosive residues) where found on critical early debris.

22. That a TWA employee caught an NTSB official falsifying the Debris Field data record in the placement of aircraft seats.

23. That when evidence of this act was provided to the Chairman of the NTSB (including pictures taken by the NYPD), in a letter written by TWA attorneys, Mr. Hall insisted the TWA employee be removed and that she be targeted for investigation and indictment.

24. That NTSB officials have been relentlessly and persistently eliminating or rewriting findings in the database that can not be explained in their theory.

25. That the NTSB refused to accept the testimony of Captain Mundo, the flight engineer on the flight previous of FL800, who stated that he left ZERO fuel in the center wing tank.

26. That the tail of the aircraft failed shortly after the nose came off, which proved a massive outside force brought down FL800.

27. That the NTSB refuses to release Debris Field information of the Bruntinghthorpe explosive test data to the parties of the investigation, because both contain powerful exculpatory evidence refuting a center wing tank initiating event.

28. That because of the results of the Bruntingthorpe tests, the NTSB leadership has refused to allow the CVR Analysis Group to reconvene.

29. That the NTSB leadership, now in possession of redacted eyewitness forms from the FBI, refuses their own investigators access to them.

30. That the NTSB leadership has oddley shown absoluteley no interest in eyewitness testimony despite the fact eyewitnesses have information vital to the airbourne breakup sequence and placement of floating debris.

31. That there is the appearance the Justice Department delayed seven months to file frivolous criminal charges and arrest Captain Stacey and Mr. & Mrs. Sanders in order to threaten and subdue disgruntled investigators immediatedly prior to the Baltimore NTSB Public Hearing.

32. That there is an appearance the FBI intenetionally tried to arrest the Sanders family while they were outside of New Yourk in order to place them in the limbo of the crimianl transportaion system.

33. That there is the appearance of prosecutorial misconduct in the Sanders and Stacey cases that include a threatened raid of CBS headquarters in New York and seizure of exculpatory evidence by the FBI as well as the removal of similar evidence from Calverton.

34. That non-government investigators who are members of the Principal Parties cannot go to Calverton without Government escort.

35. That the Government refused the help of professional ocean salvage operators who had equipment on site on 18 July 1996. Even though Weeks Marine and AT&T, who both routinely contracted with the Government in the past, had equipment to support divers, robot suhmarines, lift and storage capability far superior to the Navy's, already on-site, their assistance was refused.

36. That the CIA contrived with the FBI a knowingly false crash scenario, alleged to have been drawn from eyewitness statements, produced a false video and released it to the mass media.

37. That FBI officials are now refusing to release eyewitness statements back to the eyewitnesses who gave them and that these eyewitnesses are now filling Freedom of Information requests in hope of obtaining their own statements.

38. That the White House, by categorizing the shootdown of TWA FL800 as a potential crime, instead of a political act of war, has been able to keep military experts totally isolated from the case.

39. That the White House has ignored a call for a congressional inquiry by a past Chairmann of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

40. That this report provides "clear and credible evidence" that officials in the Clinton Administration are guilty of criminal wrongdoing and that Attorney General Reno should be compelled to appoint a Special Prosecutor in investigate the actions of the NTSB and FBI in covering up evidence that a missile shot down TWA Flight 800.

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release

March 12, 1997 EXECUTIVE ORDER 13039: EXCLUSION OF THE NAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE DEVELOPMENT GROUP FROM THE FEDERAL LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS PROGRAM By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7103(b) (1) of title 5 of the United States Code, and having determined that the Naval Special Warfare Development Group has as a primary function intelligence, counter-intelligence, investigative, or national security work and that the provisions of Chapter 71 of title 5 of the United States Code cannot be applied to this organization in a manner consistent with national security requirements and considerations, Executive Order 12171 of November 19, 1979, as amended, is further amended by adding the following at the end of section 1-205: "(i) Naval Special Warfare Development Group." WILLIAM J. CLINTON

THE WHITE HOUSE,

March 11, 1997.