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Old 28th September 2007 | 04:38
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Pugilistic Animus
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Well, my 'conspiracy theory agrees 100% with the NTSB...

However, as an aside my uncle a retired Naval officer, informed me that during the time of flight 800 the Navy was testing a very high powered radar antenna {not entirely sure exactly what} installation.

He then informed me that they frequently 'lock on to civil airliners' for practice drills and calibration of such equipment [and just look around that area on sectionals and you know they do 'something secret' around that airspace] perhaps that was the initial trigger of the arcing condition perhaps an overvoltage/surge was the final dagger in the heart of flt 800

so while I agree that the ingredients for disater existed I do not rule out that there was maybe so "extra help" getting it started

Now, my uncle is very sane and knowledgeable about Naval operations [having served on many many ships in his 20 years of service] ...and he didn't say that that was definitely the cause but........
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