There is a guy screaming at me over on X in all CAPS no less that there was no airplane at the Pentagon. He is particularly immune to the notion that being there and wading through half an acre of aircraft bits trying to pull people out could not be true. I am, therefore, a LIAR.This of course was not on the scale of 9-11 but when TWA flight 800 went down off Long Island there were, and are still conspiracy theories that a rocket or bomb took it down. Many say they saw a rocket impact the 747.
I was not on that team. But in direct contact daily with the leaders and the guys in the water.
They brought up 98% of the jet and all of the bodies. My contacts said there was no external evidence of a rocket strike. But many still hold that it was shot down. It ended up being an electric short in a fuel tank. There was so much media pressure they housed the guys to the Manhattan project site for a little more security.
Divers Confront Hazards, Horrors Amid Wreckage of TWA Jet
Recovery: More than 100 searchers are working the underwater forest of jagged metal and wire. They are recovering remains of bodies and pieces of the plane.www.latimes.com
Would love to take him back there. The passengers were nothing but body parts blown into the building. The kids of the Old Guard, 4th BN 3rd INF, spent the next couple of weeks in bio suits and protective masks collecting them. Due to the heat and trauma they could manage an hour or two at a time.
People get invested in this nonsense or trapped in the rabbit hole and become immune to alternative information. It really is cult-like.